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Article: Smart Plan to Save Marriages.(a church oriented plan to help newly weds)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- March 29, 1999
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Gloomy divorce rates are the norm in the United States, but a program linking church and community could help more couples follow through with their wedding vows.
Pragmatic, booming America has become a cold place for romance. Today's staggering divorce statistics suggest six in 10 marriages in the United States will fail, most with. in the first few years.
The rate of cohabitation is up 700 percent since 1970, as a divorce-shy generation looks unsuccessfully for the way back to the stability their grandparents enjoyed but their parents left behind. More than half of all marriages in the United States are preceded by cohabitation, as couples "try to get ...