California Divorce Rate

The California divorce rate was already a known problem more than half a century ago, in 1947, when there were 51,336 divorces (including annulments), which is 6,266 more divorces than there were marriages just 7 years earlier--there were only 45,070 marriages in 1940.  But at least it had been relatively flat for almost three decades since WWII, at which time the "1970 Family Law Act" was implemented and the number of divorces skyrocketed by 38%.  There were more divorces in that one year than there had been marriages just 9 years earlier, in 1961.  What could possibly be more irresponsible than for the STATE itself to pass a law which it KNEW would accelerate an already out of control problem with family breakdown, resulting in 3,243 more divorces in 1970 than there were marriages just 9 years earlier?  This jump in the number of divorces established an entirely new trend line for divorces in California.

Perhaps the most revealing indictment of the concern [read: lack thereof] that California's politicians have for correcting the problem is the simple fact that the State of California no longer reports their own divorce rate, which by itself is a fraud against the young men of California.  What could be more irresponsible than for these public servants to stop reporting the divorce rate after 1980 and concealing the magnitude of the rampant out of control social pathologies that they themselves created?  The following graphs prove that any and all of these public servants knew (or should have known) that the California Department of Health Services' own data prior to 1980 reported that in almost any given ten year period, there were more divorces than there were marriages ten years earlier.

Public servants who fail to correct such a massive hemorrhage of our society have lost their right to be paid by the taxpayers who suffered from the resulting social pathologies, much less to participate in establishing social policy.  Those who knowingly participated in exacerbating an already known and serious problem should be tried as criminals against humanity. 

The magnitude of the problems they created is perhaps beyond the comprehension of this layman, but to quantify the damages to human life alone, consider that 2.8 million divorces in the forty years between 1940 and 1980 caused 4.2 million children to be adversely impacted by the vagaries of our divorce courts.   If the increase in the number of divorces since then just followed the prior trend, then there were another 4.3 million families and 6.5 million children adversely affected by divorce between 1981 and 2001, for a total of 8.5 million children since 1940.   With an adult population of only 26.4 million, almost one third of California's adults would have been raised in broken families where their risk of mortality is 44% higher than for those raised by their biological parents in intact families.

Of the 241,000 deaths in California last year, 181,000 were premature deaths [read: those who died prior to the age of 75, the average life expectancy of an American citizen], which is a premature mortality rate of 548.5 per 100,000 Californians.  The premature mortality rate of the 67% of Californians raised by both biological parents is 479 and of the 33% raised in broken families is 690   [.67X + .33 x .33X = 548.5, X = 479, 1.44X = 690], so 17,935 of these 8.5 million children of divorce will die prematurely solely because of largesse by these public servants who failed miserably to DO THEIR JOBS [(690 - 479) per 100,000 pop x 8.5 million = 17,935 premature deaths].

California is not an exception to the rule, though.   This is a pattern which has repeated itself across the country, from state to state, from county to county.  If the problem is no worse in other states, then divorce causes the premature deaths of 154,350 American citizens each year, and will exceed 5 million over the next three decades.

While acts of terror by foreign suicide bombers get and hold our attention for months, we have a domestic, silent act of terror which gets almost no attention, being carried out by our very own public servants, taking 26 TIMES as many lives (and doing that each year) as Osama Bin Ladin.

If no corrective action is taken, immediately, then our own domestic terrorists will take 833 TIMES as many American lives as OBL has taken in his lifetime, IF he's 100% guilty as charged (a "fact" which this author finds hard to believe).

Nonetheless, if the energy and resources and dollars which are now being expended to get even with OBL were to instead be redirected to resolving our OWN social pathologies, we could immediately cut this loss of life by 90% and save 138,915 lives EACH year and 5 million lives over the next three decades, rather than wasting more precious lives fighting imaginary terrorists (imaginary, because they're already with their Maker).

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