Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.
People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.
When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
Marriage is not common in Sweden.
You know, marriage is making a big comeback. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before.
From 1865 to 1965, my race, the black race, was one of the most competitive, entrepreneurial, Christian, moral races in our country. We had the highest percentage of entrepreneurs in the country, the highest percentage of marriage in the country.
When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.
If you're getting married less you're getting less divorces.
Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good.
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.
