Former AA CEO now leads AA subcontractors

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By the way!--- Your not trying to besmirch the beautiful women of the "Great, and Honorable", States of Arkansas, and Alabama, now are you?----- 😉

Actually, any Red State will do, as, being "family values" states, they have the highest divorce rates, making ideal for marriages of convenience.

 

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Actually, any Red State will do, as, being "family values" states, they have the highest divorce rates, making ideal for marriages of convenience.

I just love statistics like this... In order to have a high divorce rate, you have to have people who are married to begin with, as opposed to a higher percentage of residents who engage in long term co-habitation and having children outside of wedlock.

The last two items caused National Institutes of Health to revise their analysis a few years back to start to factor in co-habitation when looking at vital statistics such as birth and death rates compared to marriage/divorce rates.

Not surprisingly, "blue states" (typically with large urban concentrations) had higher occurances of co-habitation, and higher percentages of single parents who never married. Taken a step further, if you apply the frequency of divorce per 1000 married individuals to the co-habitation population, and add that rate into divorces per 1000 residents (married and unmarried), it flattens out the ratio enough to say there's practically no correlation between political leaning and divorce/breakup rates.

 

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I just love statistics like this... In order to have a high divorce rate, you have to have people who are married to begin with, as opposed to a higher percentage of residents who engage in long term co-habitation and having children outside of wedlock.

The last two items caused National Institutes of Health to revise their analysis a few years back to start to factor in co-habitation when looking at vital statistics such as birth and death rates compared to marriage/divorce rates.

Not surprisingly, "blue states" (typically with large urban concentrations) had higher occurances of co-habitation, and higher percentages of single parents who never married. Taken a step further, if you apply the frequency of divorce per 1000 married individuals to the co-habitation population, and add that rate into divorces per 1000 residents (married and unmarried), it flattens out the ratio enough to say there's practically no correlation between political leaning and divorce/breakup rates.

Aw Heck. You took seriously something that was poked at you in fun. 🙁

(That, BTW, is a Red State definition of pregnancy.)

At least I said Red State rather than making a trailer reference. 🙂

But seriously, marriages and divorces are hard figures, easily accessed and verified. The other things you mention, while certainly germane, are rather subjective, and rely on (notoriously unreliable) census figures and even pure conjecture, however well-intended. But, I could moderately agree with the premises(but perhaps not the conclusion) of your post in general.