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The United States has a divorce rate of 3.6 per 1,000 as of 2005<ref>http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_20.pdf</ref>. This results in a 41% failure rate for first marriages.<ref>http://www.divorcerate.org/</ref>
The United States has a divorce rate of 3.6 per 1,000 as of 2005<ref>http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_20.pdf</ref>. This results in a 41% failure rate for first marriages.<ref>http://www.divorcerate.org/</ref>
According to a [[Barna Group]] study, the percentage of [[atheists]] getting divorced is lower than that for [[Christians]] or [[Jews]]<ref>http://www.adherents.com/largecom/baptist_divorce.html</ref> However, since Christians choose not to co-habitate in the same proportions as atheists, they are more likely to marry and therefore more likely to divorce as a group since a greater proportion of them are married.
According to a [[Barna Group]] study from 1999 with a sample size of over 3000, the percentage of [[atheists]] getting divorced was lower than that for [[Christians]] or [[Jews]]<ref>http://www.adherents.com/largecom/baptist_divorce.html</ref>
However, a follow up study in 2001 that looked into cohabitation trends found that Christians weren't cohabitating in the same proportions as non-Christians and that was affecting the results. Checking for born again Christians specifically, it was found that 80% of born again Christians were or had been married compared to 69% for all other groups. When this was adjusted for, it gave born again Christians a slightly lower divorce rate than the general population.<ref>http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=95</ref>
A follow up Barna study in 2004 looking only at people who had married and their rate of divorce (again with a sample size of over 3000) found that Christians on a whole had a slightly lower percentage of divorce when compared to atheists and agnostics.<ref>http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=170</ref>
== Covenant Marriage ==
== Covenant Marriage ==