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Graph of the Day for August 13, 2010
"Marriage is slowly dying in Scandinavia. A majority of children in Sweden and Norway are born out of wedlock. Sixty percent of first-born children in Denmark have unmarried parents. Not coincidentally, these countries have had something close to full gay marriage for a decade or more. Same-sex marriage has locked in and reinforced an existing Scandinavian trend toward the separation of marriage and parenthood." Stanly Kurtz, The Weekly Standard, 2004
Source: The Heritage Foundation.
Hoven's Index for August 13, 2010
Marital status of the US population in 1990:
Never Married: 22.2%
Married: 61.9%
Widowed: 7.6%
Divorced: 8.3%
Marital status of the US population in 2008:
Never Married: 25.9%
Married: 57.3%
Widowed: 6.4%
Divorced: 10.4%
Source: US Statistical Abstract, Table 56.
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