Your Fun Fact for the Day

[anastasiav]

"The country's lowest divorce rate belongs to none other than Massachusetts, the original home of same-sex marriage."

"States that voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in both 2004 and 2008 boast lower average rates of divorce and teenage childbirth than do states that voted for the Republican in both elections."

"You can do a good job of predicting how a state will vote in national elections by looking at its population's average age at first marriage and childbirth."

source. Very interesting article, worth a read.

Comments

[profesor.livejournal.com]

Very interesting article - thank you for sharing it!

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

Years ago a MA marriage counselor jokingly (?) remarked that "blue-state liberals" such as those hereabouts are more likely to talk about their feelings, something that is supposed to be positive within a marriage. he ascribed the low divorce rate to that kind of thing.