{"id":14874,"date":"2012-01-09T01:23:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T04:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14874"},"modified":"2012-01-09T01:23:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T04:23:53","slug":"military-divorce-rate-highest-ever-mercyme-teams-with-familylife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/military-divorce-rate-highest-ever-mercyme-teams-with-familylife\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Divorce Rate Highest Ever, MercyMe Teams with FamilyLife"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rate of divorce in the US military was recently reported<\/a> as 3.7%, with an increase in officer divorces accounting for an increase in the military as a whole.<\/p>\n

The Air Force had<\/a> the highest rate, at 3.9%.\u00a0 Enlisted women<\/a> had a nearly 10% divorce rate.<\/p>\n

The general American population had divorce rate of 3.5% in 2009, the last year for which numbers are available.\u00a0 (It’s unclear if these “population” numbers also included members of the military.)<\/p>\n

While this may sound dire, it’s also worth noting it is difficult to assess the numbers in a vacuum.\u00a0 For one thing, the military is a select population based on gender, age, and a variety of characteristics (including stress and combat).\u00a0 Thus, it is difficult to compare it directly to the general population.\u00a0 In addition, some reports have indicated the rate of marriage <\/em>is also higher in the military than in the civilian population.<\/p>\n

Family and quality of life are significant factors in a military member’s professional readiness, which is why marriage and family seminars feature so prominently<\/a> in support for the military mission.<\/p>\n

(For those trying to square these statistics with the stereotypical “half of all marriages end in divorce” numbers, remember the numbers cited here are per year<\/em>, not per marriage.)<\/p>\n

In response to the seriousness of the challenges to military marriages<\/a>, the Christian music group MercyMe has teamed with FamilyLife<\/a> for their 2012 tour to support military marriages<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Lead singer Bart Millard said, “FamilyLife has stepped up and said this needs to happen for our troops. Trying to keep military families together is something I take very seriously. [This] gives us all an opportunity to offer these couples a fighting chance.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rate of divorce in the US military was recently reported as 3.7%, with an increase in officer divorces accounting for an increase in the military as a whole. The Air Force had the highest rate, at 3.9%.\u00a0 Enlisted women had a nearly 10% divorce rate. The general American population had divorce rate of 3.5% in 2009, the last year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[740,83,2],"class_list":["post-14874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-divorce","tag-marriage","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}