A Decrease in the US Divorce Rate – Lyman Stone, 7/29/25 (2104)

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

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Lyman Stone of the Institute for Family Studies Is Marriage Back? Divorce Is Down, Family Stability Is Up Institute for Family Studies

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0:00.0	This is Pastor Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. The LCMS operates the second largest parochial school system in the United States. What can you expect from a Lutheran Church Missouri Synod School? There's one race, the human race. And Jesus died for the sins of every man, woman, and child from every land and
0:23.0	every nation. Life begins at conception. All life is precious from womb to tomb, and every student,
0:30.4	parent, and teacher is created in the very image of God. There's right and wrong, and we know
0:36.5	which is which from the Ten Commandments.
0:38.9	There are only two sexes, male and female he created them. Marriage is the lifelong union of one
0:45.6	man and one woman. There's such a thing as objective, absolute truth, and it's found in the
0:51.1	person and work of Jesus Christ and His Word.
0:55.0	To find a Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod's School near you, visit LcMS.org slash schools.
1:01.0	There There has been over the last four or five decades what our next guest has called the divorce revolution, where divorce was not unknown in the United States, but it was certainly rarer than it is today.
1:31.2	And then the revolution occurred and divorce became, well, at one point, a matter so serious that a trope has developed,
1:41.7	which is 50% of all marriages and in divorce, which has discouraged an awful
1:46.4	lot of people from pursuing marriage in the first place. Is it true? And have things improved?
1:53.8	Welcome back to Issues, Etc. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about divorce rates in the U.S.
1:58.7	Lyman Stone. He's a PhD candidate in population dynamics at McGill University.
2:04.6	He's director of research for demographic intelligence, senior fellow and director of the
2:08.6	pro-natalism initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, co-author of a report for IFS,
2:14.6	titled Is Marriage Back?
2:16.6	Divorces down, Family Stability is up. Lyman, welcome back.
2:21.6	It's always good to be with you.
2:22.9	The Institute for Family Studies recently released a report on divorce rates in the U.S.
2:28.3	Give us a summary of that, if you would.
2:31.0	Well, the summary is pretty simple.
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