Go Figure
Marriage
3.5 Divorces per 1,000 Americans in 2008.
4 Divorces per 1,000 Americans in 2000.
Source: Pew Research Center
Adoption
26% Increase in all adoption placements at Bethany Christian Services, the largest U.S. adoption agency, in 2010 over 2009.
66% Increase in international adoption placements. Inquiries are up 95 percent.
Source: Bethany Christian Services
Church Life
Churches with 100 or more teens that have a full-time youth minister.
87% Evangelical churches with 100 or more teens that have a full-time youth minister.
55% Mainline Protestant congregations with 100 or more teens that have a full-time youth minister.
Source: National Congregations Study
69% Church volunteers who are married.
58% Church volunteers who are female.
Source: Barna Research
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archae ologist
one of the things i have learned over the years is that you can make statistics say whatever you want them to. they are too easily manipluated to be trustworthy.
Dan H
"I think the decrease in divorce reflects the poor economy." Or apathy.
ms muse
I think the decrease in divorce reflects the poor economy.