A Confederacy of Divorcées

**Gregoshi** · 01-29-2014, 10:47

Originally Posted by Ironside

... so if we forbid marriages, divorces will go down to zero.

Hear hear!! Truly a null meant for marriage.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 01-29-2014, 15:46

Originally Posted by Gregoshi

Hear hear!! Truly a null meant for marriage.

Not gonna happen. Given the current climate, maybe we could restrict it to same sex marriages only....

**Montmorency** · 01-29-2014, 16:01

So does all that now make ICSD a visionary?

**SwordsMaster** · 01-29-2014, 17:19

I'm curious about that NE corner. Not religious and yet highly divorcious. Or is that the irishness?

**Montmorency** · 01-29-2014, 20:57

I'd guess the heavily urban nature of that area has a lot to do with it.

The mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire, and pretty much all of Maine, are pretty rural.

See also: Western New York vs. NYC area. Urban areas seem to get less divorce, looking at the whole map...

**Beskar** · 01-29-2014, 21:16

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

Good point. NYC is less divorcy than rural Maine... Looking at the later maps Lemur posted, I'm actually really surprised to see New York at the lowest end of the teen birth spectrum. I expect it in the south due to the abstinence-only sex ed approach, but I would have figured heavily urban areas like New York to compete. That's a much better map.

Well, New York has very lax abortion laws, so there is no teen Birth as they get aborted. Abstinence-only sex-ed is pretty worthless and because of the anti-Abortion views, they are more likely to carry the child to the end.