Reverend Moon has performed mass weddings uniting thousands of couples. Most of were arranged marriages and the couples did not know each other before they were united in wedlock. How does the divorce rate in these marriages compare with the rest of the populace?

gonnzo

"...a 2000 FFWPU(Unification Church)-sponsored survey that disclosed that 17 percent of couples who participated in the 1982 blessing ceremony are no longer married to each other. By contrast, a 2005 National Center for Health Statistics report showed that 35 percent of women and 31 percent of men in the United States had ended their first marriages after 10 years." http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/06/28/arranged0628zj.html Nov 22 09, 9:35 PM

queproblema

If this is off-topic....whoops! (It's not FAR off topic.) Long-lasting marriages are sometimes built more on commitment than compatibility. Ben Franklin visited a Moravian community where in some cases the elders used lots to select marriage partners for their young people. His conclusion upon inquiring as to the success of this method: I objected, if the matches are not made by the mutual choice of the parties, some of them may chance to be very unhappy. "And so they may," answered my informer, "if you let the parties choose for themselves"; which, indeed, I could not deny. http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/page73.htm Ben himself enjoyed a 44-year-long common-law marriage to Deborah Read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Common-law_marriage_to_Deborah_Read Nov 23 09, 1:48 AM

Baloo55th

Another point to consider is how divorce is regarded in the Unification Church. Quote: "Rev. Moon is anti-divorce, anti-premarital sex and anti-homosexuality." People that accept the marriages may be not able to bring themselves to seek divorce as easily as outsiders (even Roman Catholics...) can. http://www.religionfacts.com/unification_church/index.htm Nov 23 09, 5:32 AM