"till death do us part"....i mean now there is 52% divorce rate...the devout Catholics...(but under some circumstances divorce is ALLOWED)....EPISCOPALS, CHRISTIANS...just give me your percentages...THANKS ...
2007-01-13 10:49:42 · 19 answers · asked by sweet 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't know the actual numbers but I do know that we take marriage very seriously as a sacred gift and yes I still beleive my vows after 33 years.
A quick survey of the congregation I attend reveals that there are 22 married couples. Half of them have been married 25 years or more.
2007-01-13 10:57:43 · answer #1 · answered by babydoll 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say 100% of people who get married believe in the "till death do us part" vow...if they choose to use that vow. Many people are choosing vows that do not include this phrase. Call me an optomist, but I say 100% because I don't think somebody would really get married if they had the intention to end it. These married, intending to live a lifelong partnership, find it more work to reconcile and increasingly easier to end.
By the way, saying "half of all marriages end in divorce" is a bit misleading...even though that's what "common knowledge" tells us.
2007-01-13 11:01:42 · answer #2 · answered by asafam23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone believes the vows when they are getting married, but your statistics are a bit scewed.
There is no divorce in the Catholic Church, but after a careful investigation that demonstrates no marriage existed in the first place, the marriage is declared null. Hence the term annulment. Google it, there is much misinformation about what that means.
52% (and those are 1979 statistics) of couples who use contraception end up in divorce.
3% of couples who use natural family planning end up in divorce.
Less than .5% of couples who pray together end up in divorce.
2007-01-13 11:02:24 · answer #3 · answered by Br. Dymphna S.F.O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would say a huge amount still believes in them. most people that got divorced were not going to church. or activally going. they got married young and what not. but at least our church will try to get them to work it out and get counselling. but most the time maybe one person from the couple is going so now you have one going to church and the other not going or might go but not really believe. if you go and pray and allow God to help you it is not hard. we all go thru hard times. it is what happens in that time. my wife and I will pray. useally she will drive to a parking lot and pray by herself. and when she gets home it is like nothing happend. or we just pray in different rooms and then it is like what happend and we are happy again. i have seen people change as well. as long as they are praying. and believe God can change them. my mother in law has not taken meds for her depression or other illness she had for a while now. because she prayed and God healed her. there was a lady who was abused and prayed over and God has protected her and her husband got help and now is going to church and is a changed person. rarely do we say divorce is the way. if you have someone and they are just refusing to go to church and is beating on the female and kids and it is life or death or what not then yeah i believe we would say ok we tried everything. but most dont try. most get married young they have a huge fight and that is that. sometimes they can even make up after but they got in the fight and one goes off and gets drunk and goes home with some lady and then things are all messed up.
2007-01-13 11:06:12 · answer #4 · answered by dannamanna99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people leave it out and say, "As long as our love shall last."
My husband and I said, "As long as our souls exist," just to be on the safe side! If there is an afterlife, I want to be darn sure he spends it with me.
But I am divorced as well. The obtainability of a divorce these days is a double edged sword. I saw no reason to subject myself nor my children to the misery of a loveless household any longer. Their father and I have both remarried, and my daughter says, "Instead of two unhappy parents, I now have four happy ones.
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2007-01-13 10:56:23 · answer #5 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reasonably estimating, I would have to say there is probably a 75% divorce rate for married today so I'd have to say about 25 % believe in their vows and stick it out.
2007-01-13 10:55:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-23 16:34:27 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is it takes BOTH parties to believe in them. You can't be in a marriage by yourself, so even if one of the spouses is devoted to the marriage vows, if the other one ISN'T, guess what? The end result will be divorce.
2007-01-13 10:56:08 · answer #8 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a gay atheist, and I've already lived "till death did us part." (My partner died in 2000.) And I believe in the vows, whether or not the state accepts them.
And just FYI, when he died, I had to pay $27,000 in state estate taxes that, had we been allowed to marry, I would have been able to put toward my retirement. Now I'll have to sponge more off of the working young adults of America when I reach that ripe old age. Thanks, America.
2007-01-13 11:05:53 · answer #9 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Denomination and % who have been divorced
Non-denominational (small conservative groups; independents) 34%
Baptists 29%
Mainline Protestants 25%
Mormons 24%
Catholics 21%
Lutherans 21%
2007-01-13 13:45:59 · answer #10 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋