Divorce Rate in America

"American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced." ~ Elinor Glyn



I guess Elinor Glyn must have done a lot of research before saying this quote because she is so right! Did you know as per a survey, The United States of America tops the list of the countries with most divorces!!! The studies on divorce rate in America say that approximately 40% to 50% marriages end up getting divorced! This means that out of every 2 marriages, 1 would break up. To add to it, if the same trend continues, there is no way that America would fail to be at the top in the coming years as well! Have a look at some of the shocking divorce statistics in America, and find out why America tops the list, as fasr as divorce statistics are concerned.



Divorce Statistics in America



Divorce is a common phenomena in America. Do Americans fail to understand the seriousness and commitment that comes with marriage? Is freedom more important than adjusting? Do they understand the causes and effects of divorce? If you think that 'No' is the answer to these questions, look at the statistics above and think again.

• As per the Enrichment Journal on the divorce rates in America, 41% of all first marriages in America, end up in divorce! The number rises to 60% when it comes to second marriages, and 73% when it comes to third marriages!!!
• The highest number of divorces occur in men and women aged between 20-25 years!
• A study by Barna Research group reveals that 25% of all the adults have been divorced at least once in their life!
• Did you know that as per a report by The State of Our Unions for the year 2005, only 63% of children n America get a chance to grow up with both their biological parents!
• At least 66% of all the divorced couples in America are childless. This is also one of the main reasons of getting divorced according to experts. Statistics also reveal that couples with children have lower chances of getting divorced than a couple who is childless.
• As per the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), 25% of marriage within younger couples is 'predicted' to end within 10 years, and the rates increase to 43% in 15 years. However, these are predictions based on the study. I believe that you are the one to decide what happens in your life!
• Another study of NCHS, reveals that between the years 1975-1998, 75% of divorce cases were filed by women with kids!! That means women took the initiation for divorce.
• Having said that, another research as per the American Law and Economics Review, the current scenario is that women now file more than 70% divorce cases in some states in America.

U.S. troops' remains to land at Dover AFB

The United States will succeed in Afghanistan despite 30 U.S. troop deaths in a helicopter shot down by Islamist Taliban militia, President Barack Obama said.

"We will press on, and we will succeed," Obama said Monday as the troops' remains were being prepared to be flown to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware Tuesday.

"Our responsibility is to ensure that their legacy is an America that reflects their courage, commitment and sense of common purpose," Obama said.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday the deaths were a sobering affirmation of the U.S. "resolve and commitment to complete the mission still at hand."

No news coverage will be allowed of the remains' arrival and solemn transfer ceremony at Dover because the individual bodies are officially unidentified, Pentagon officials said, although they acknowledged they knew exactly who was killed in the Saturday crash -- the single deadliest day for U.S. troops in the decade-long Afghanistan war -- and already invited next-of-kin to Dover for the ceremonial rite.

Officials, who also did not say when the service members' remains would arrive at Dover, insisted they were not trying to limit images of the aftermath of one of the most catastrophic incidents of the Afghan war.

They were simply upholding a policy to preserve the dignity of the remains transfer, they said.

Pentagon Press Association President Nancy Youssef said the association was "seeking a way for the public to have a record of this poignant, important ceremony."

In February 2009 the Obama administration relaxed an 18-year Pentagon ban on media coverage of returning U.S. war dead, leaving the decision to the families of the dead.

Dover is the home for the largest U.S. military mortuary and has been used to receive service members killed in war and peacetime.

The 30 service members killed Saturday were among 38 people in a Boeing CH-47 Chinook twin-engine, tandem-rotor, heavy-lift helicopter that was shot down and crashed while on a mission to reinforce troops trying to capture a Taliban leader in the Saidabad district of Afghanistan's central-eastern Wardak province, a longtime Taliban stronghold, the U.S.-led command in Afghanistan said.

The Taliban said they shot down the helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade.

Twenty-two of those killed were Navy SEALs from the Virginia Beach, Va., Naval Special Warfare Development Group, commonly known as SEAL Team Six -- the same unit that carried out the March 2 raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Three Air Force controllers and five crewmembers also died in the shootdown. Eight Afghans were also killed in the crash -- seven commandos and a civilian interpreter.

The Chinook is one of the few Vietnam War-era aircraft still in production and in front-line service. Its primary roles include troop movement, artillery fortification and battlefield resupply.

There were at least two other fatal shootdowns by rocket-propelled grenades of Chinooks carrying special operations troops, in 2002 and 2005, Politico reported.

Obama said June 22 10,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn by the end the year and 23,000 more troops by next summer. That would leave about 70,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan until 2014, the scheduled date for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from the country.

Brazil announces scholarship program

Brazil has announced it will invest $2.02 billion by the end of 2014 in 75,000 science and technology scholarships that will send students abroad.

The commitment is part of the government's Science Without Borders program announced July 26, an article in Nature reported.

Brazil is one of the world's 10 largest economies and has a need for chemists, physicists, computer scientists and engineers, said Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, director of the Sao Paulo state research foundation.

"This will have a major impact in allowing Brazilian kids to take their ideas to the limit," he said.

There aren't enough students studying science and engineering to fill current demand, Aloizio Mercadante, the Brazilian minister of science and technology, said.

The scholarship program is intended to address the shortage by focusing on engineering, health sciences, life sciences and technology, he said.

The idea is to send students to top universities, mostly in the United States and United Kingdom. There are 238 foreign universities participating in the scholarship program, Mercadante said.