Reposting as a separate thread because this is a topic worth discussion. The images are omitted for now.
There is a perfectly reasonable explanation that leaps to the eye.
[edit]Cast your eyes onto the the graph of the nationally aggregated data:
1)Why the huge spike in divorces/married couple in the 1960s -1980? Those are the liberals divorcing to pursue sexual liberalisation.
2) But why does it drop after that? Because
a) The more promiscuous have weeded themselves out of the marrying pool
b) With the general devaluation of marriage amongst liberals those that marry are those that value it more; those that don't value it have been weeded out.
c) Many liberals scarred by their parents' divorces naturally tend to marry only when they are committed to the marriage and when they've found a partner with similar commitment because they don't want to scar themselves more or their future children, therefore
d) Over time those liberals that marry become more committed to keeping the marriage going, despite liberal values being anti-marriage, because those less committed to marriage have been weeded out
3) But why the spike from 2005-2007? Those are the 'conservatives' who are mostly liberals just a generation or two behind (cf. for example the Catholics embracing contraception and marriage annulment for de facto divorce)*. Many of the 'conservatives' embrace the liberals values and praxes of 1-2 generations earlier and hence divorce at high rates.
4) All is explained:
a) Married liberals have over time been more committed to marriage, while conservatives have been less committed to marriage because they've been steadily embracing the liberal values therefore
b) 'Conservatives' have recently been divorcing at higher rates than liberals (though the actual numbers and proportion of 'conservatives' divorcing is not as great as the 1960/70 liberals, explaining why the second spike is not as great).
So yes, many 'conservatives' are hypocrites, but the reason why they act hypocritically and divorce is because they have abandoned conservative values for liberal ones, and the reason why married liberals have been more committed is because they've personally experienced the damage caused by liberal values and therefore embrace the conservative commitment to marriage.
So liberalism (or progressivism) is causing the harm. QED.
Postscript:
(*The alert reader might question this interpretation given the short duration of the spike, instead preferring to attribute it to some anomaly. The answer, of course, is that conservatives have been divorcing in increasing numbers all the time from ~1980s, this trend is merely masked by the great national decrease in divorces/married couples due to married liberals being much more committed to marriage. The above image with the relatively large interval is chosen to highlight the general trends.
For full disclosure, we append a more detailed graph from the range of 1950s to 2009, where the great spike and following decline is still very clear; the various small spikes in the decline are easily explained as the work of the 'conservatives'.)
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[edit]Cast your eyes onto the the graph of the nationally aggregated data:
1)Why the huge spike in divorces/married couple in the 1960s -1980? Those are the liberals divorcing to pursue sexual liberalisation.
2) But why does it drop after that? Because
a) The more promiscuous have weeded themselves out of the marrying pool
b) With the general devaluation of marriage amongst liberals those that marry are those that value it more; those that don't value it have been weeded out.
c) Many liberals scarred by their parents' divorces naturally tend to marry only when they are committed to the marriage and when they've found a partner with similar commitment because they don't want to scar themselves more or their future children, therefore
d) Over time those liberals that marry become more committed to keeping the marriage going, despite liberal values being anti-marriage, because those less committed to marriage have been weeded out
3) But why the spike from 2005-2007? Those are the 'conservatives' who are mostly liberals just a generation or two behind (cf. for example the Catholics embracing contraception and marriage annulment for de facto divorce)*. Many of the 'conservatives' embrace the liberals values and praxes of 1-2 generations earlier and hence divorce at high rates.
4) All is explained:
a) Married liberals have over time been more committed to marriage, while conservatives have been less committed to marriage because they've been steadily embracing the liberal values therefore
b) 'Conservatives' have recently been divorcing at higher rates than liberals (though the actual numbers and proportion of 'conservatives' divorcing is not as great as the 1960/70 liberals, explaining why the second spike is not as great).
So yes, many 'conservatives' are hypocrites, but the reason why they act hypocritically and divorce is because they have abandoned conservative values for liberal ones, and the reason why married liberals have been more committed is because they've personally experienced the damage caused by liberal values and therefore embrace the conservative commitment to marriage.
So liberalism (or progressivism) is causing the harm. QED.
Postscript:
(*The alert reader might question this interpretation given the short duration of the spike, instead preferring to attribute it to some anomaly. The answer, of course, is that conservatives have been divorcing in increasing numbers all the time from ~1980s, this trend is merely masked by the great national decrease in divorces/married couples due to married liberals being much more committed to marriage. The above image with the relatively large interval is chosen to highlight the general trends.
For full disclosure, we append a more detailed graph from the range of 1950s to 2009, where the great spike and following decline is still very clear; the various small spikes in the decline are easily explained as the work of the 'conservatives'.)
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