Well she has now gone from this unhappy planet,

With all the blogwatchers and the destructors on it…

Amy Welborn: New book on Christian converts from Islam.

Legal Affairs Debate Club: Sanford Levinson vs. Jack Balkin: Should liberals stop defending Roe?

Maggie Gallagher: “The Divorce Divide.”

…Who are most likely to be in very happy first marriages? The college-educated are about twice as likely as high school dropouts; the “very” religious are also about twice as likely as those who are only slightly or not at all religious. People who marry directly without first cohabiting are also about twice as likely to succeed in marriage as those who live together.

What’s the best age to get married? Earlier than most people think. Teen marriages are high-risk. But the most successful age for marriage was not the late 30s but the mid 20s. “When the quality of marriages is taken into account, however, first marriages of persons in their mid 20s emerge as distinctly more successful than those entered into either earlier or later in life,” the report notes, calling this finding one that “has not been previously recognized.” If you are 23 and find the right person, you are plenty old enough to make a happy marriage. …

A separate study by University of Maryland sociologist Stephen P. Martin found that divorce rates among the college-educated have declined by half since their peak in the 1970s. He labels this growing evidence of a “divorce divide.”

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