Category Archives: NCFMR

More bad news for marriage is baked in.

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Dalrock

Back in September W. Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang published an American Enterprise Institute report titled The Marriage Divide: How and Why Working-Class Families Are More Fragile Today.  I’ve written previously about the NYT response to the report, but not … Continue reading →

Posted in American Enterprise Institute, Data, Illegitimacy, Legitimacy, Marriage, NCFMR, Replacing Marriage, W. Bradford Wilcox | 69 Comments

The rational response to high divorce rates.

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Dalrock

Note:  Most of the data presented in this post is from family profiles produced by the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU).  For brevity when referencing a family profile from the NCFMR … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, Disrespecting Respectability, Divorce, Marriage, NCFMR | 230 Comments

America is destroying the Hispanic family.

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Dalrock

Usually when you see divorce rates broken out by race and ethnicity, the results look like the chart below, created with data from an NCFMR report on 2010 divorce rates: Hispanic divorce rates look slightly higher than white divorce rates, … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, Denial, Feminists, Marriage, NCFMR, Replacing Marriage, Traditional Conservatives, Turning a blind eye | 132 Comments

NY Times Happy Talk About Divorce

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Dalrock

The NY Times has a new article complaining that people still think divorce is a problem (H/T Rollo Tomassi):  The Divorce Surge Is Over, but the Myth Lives On But here is the thing: It is no longer true that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, Denial, Divorce, NCFMR, New York Times, W. Bradford Wilcox | 73 Comments

More remarriage rate charts.

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Dalrock

There was a problem with the time scaling of the remarriage rate chart in my last post. Here is the fixed version:   I also decided to take another look at the data in the NCFMR paper I used for this … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, NCFMR, Remarriage Strike | 236 Comments