Go Figure

Stats on divorce, adoption, youth ministers, and church volunteers.

Marriage

3.5 Divorces per 1,000 Americans in 2008.

4 Divorces per 1,000 Americans in 2000.

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

Related Elsewhere:

See our earlier Go Figure postings from August 2010, July 2010, June 2010, May 2010, April 2010, March 2010, February 2010, January 2010, December 2009, November 2009, October 2009, September 2009, August 2009, July 2009, June 2009, May 2009, April 2009, March 2009, and earlier issues.

- More from Ted Olsen

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Christianity Today September, 2010

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