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June 29, 2005
Iraq War Takes Toll on Army Marriages
Is anyone else suspicious of these numbers? The Sociologist in me doesn't trust these numbers. What we need to make an informed decision is if the data is the average duration of those marriage and if it's the first marriage or not. These two pieces of data would allow us to draw a better picture of what is happening, because if the average duration of the marriage is less than 3 year deployment in Iraq, then you can make a safer correlation between the war and the divorce rate, but if the average is greater than 5 years then you have to assume there is something else going on instead. Also the fact that it's centralized with Army officers is also little confusing as well. That almost screams that there is a systemic issue playing itself out in the family system. If I had to bet money on the root causes I would suspect economic situations combined with the workload increases. I'd still like to see marriage duration totals as well to make sure there wasn't a massive increase in marriages before 2002.
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Posted by ManDrake at June 29, 2005 9:48 PM
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