Thursday, July 11, 2013

Divorce Rate in Singapore

Today's papers were all about how the number of marriages increased and divorces reduced last year.

The ugly truth remains that the divorce rate is still high at 25.9% (7,241 divorces vs 27,936 marriages) even though it is significantly lower than that of USA (50%). The last time USA had divorce rate lower than 30% was 1969.

The fact that 1 in 4 marriages end up in divorce is not exactly encouragement to get hitched, and our government has much to do to put a halt to us following the foot steps of USA. If something needs to be done, it is now, before we lost faith of the age-old institution that they called marriage.

Source: Department of Statistics

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