"In 1920 the divorce rate in the United States was 8 per 1,000 married women; by 1979, it had reached nearly 23 a nearly threefold increase. It has since dropped slightly, but this is likely due to a large increase in cohabiting couples, now an estimated 6.6 million, whose separations, including from children, are not recorded in official statistics. By many measurements, the United States has the highest divorce rate in the world. Evidence of the toll is that today in America a heartbreaking 40 percent of all births are out of wedlock."
Elder Bruce D. Porter
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