BYU Studies
Temple Marriages Are Less Likely to End in Divorce: Insights from the B. H. Roberts 2023 Current and Former Latter-day Saint Survey
Authors
Stephen Cranney
Joshua Coates
Keywords
temple marriage, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, divorce rates
Abstract
It is a commonly held truism that temple marriages are less likely to end in divorce. But is it true? How do we know? The fact is that this popular belief is primarily based on surveys that are now forty to fifty years old. A popular statistic of temple marriages having a 6% divorce rate is cited by the Gospel Topics essay on “Temple Marriage,” which in turn cites an article from the Los Angeles Times. However, the Times article came from a 1985 Church study that used 1981 data, making this 6% number more than forty years out of date.
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Cranney, Stephen and Coates, Joshua
(2024)
"Temple Marriages Are Less Likely to End in Divorce: Insights from the B. H. Roberts 2023 Current and Former Latter-day Saint Survey,"
BYU Studies: Vol. 63:
Iss.
3, Article 3.
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https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol63/iss3/3
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