November 18, 2016
THE CULTURE WARS ARE A ROUT:
Divorce Rate in U.S. Drops to Nearly 40-Year Low (Abigail Abrams, Nov. 17, 2016, TIME)
The U.S. divorce rate dropped for the third year in a row, reaching its lowest point in nearly 40 years, according to data released Thursday.Marriage rates, on the other hand, increased last year. In 2015, there were 32.2 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women age 15 or older, according to the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University. This represents a jump from 31.9 in 2014 and is the highest number of marriages since 2009, which suggests that marriage rates may be stabilizing after decades of decline.
We need not argue about whether the UR intended anything he accomplished nor whether he was good at his job, but by every statistical measure he had an absurdly successful conservative presidency.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 18, 2016 9:14 AM