B105 TODAYS BEST COUNTRY » rural http://kkcb.com Tue, 21 May 2013 22:00:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Divorce Is Skyrocketing in Rural America — Why Now? http://kkcb.com/divorce-is-skyrocketing-in-rural-america-%e2%80%94-why-now/ http://kkcb.com/divorce-is-skyrocketing-in-rural-america-%e2%80%94-why-now/#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:32:36 +0000 Tony Hart http://kkcb.com/?p=3349 According to census data, the divorce rate in rural Americans has increased seven-fold since 1970.

Now, for the first time, rural Americans are just as likely as city dwellers to have a marriage end in a divorce.

Experts attribute this explosion in divorce in America's heartland to changing values; divorce is no longer as stigmatized as it once was.

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