Divorce and Remarriages
Divorce in recent years has become and the common thing with marriages breaking up day and night. In equal measure or lower, remarriages have also become normal in both the African states and the white states. Statistically, it is proven that the rate of divorce and remarriage have increased form a lower percentage to a higher percent. This paper will evaluate some of the predictions of statistics about divorce and remarriages.
The rate of divorce and separated who never got remarried was predicted at 13.1% in 1972 according to GSS data, in a breakdown calculation, it is noted that divorce was 4.6%, separated 2.4% and never remarried at a whopping 6.1%. A further computation of all the rates, a sum of 38.6% was realized, with a breakdown of 25.5%+4.2%+8.9%, for 2018. It is realized that the stats in 2018 are higher than those of 1972.
Further study of the same categories, it is realized that African women were the highest victim of divorce as compared to whites in 1972. The numerical representation gives us 13.4% for black women and 2.9% for whites, with a difference of 10.5% for the divorced. For the separated, 10.4% for the black women and 9.5% for the whites with a difference of 1.4% nonetheless, the number of never remarried for the blacks were at a lower rate. Going by the stats above, it is evident that the divorce rate in 1972 for black was higher than the whites, and in 2018 the rate of divorce for white is higher than of the blacks. The rate of separation in 1972 was higher in the side of black, while in 2018, it was higher in the side of whites. The rate of remarriage in 1972 was higher for the blacks and lower for the whites, while in 2018, the rate of remarriage is the direct opposite.
Another statistical review of the number of children born in these categories, it is discovered that the number of children born to never-married whites in 2018 stood at 0, while for the black women, it stood at 47. The date of the same case is unavailable for 1972. To elaborate, the average number of children to ever-married women and average for these categories should be accounted for: marries, widowed, separated, and divorced. The number of children for ever-married whites is 2.315 on average in 1972, while for the white women in the same category is 2.4325 in 2018. The number of children born to ever-married blacks is 2.7375 in 1972 and 2.9025 in 2018. All these statistics rely on the assumption that ever-married black women had a number of kids in wedlock. To study the fertility between the blacks and the white women, a computation which involves subtraction of the average number of children for white women and black women, where the gap stood at 47 in favor of the black women.
In conclusion, the lesson learned from these statistical data proves that the number of divorces in both whites and blacks has increased immensely from 1972. The rate of remarriages has also increased, though, to the black women, the rate of remarriages is lower as compared to the whites. Considering the number of children born in these categories, it is noted that the rate of fertility in black women is much higher in 2018 as compared to the whites — all these statistics places an essential role in determining the current situations in the family and population growth.