IF YOU get married in a church, you are more likely to get divorced than those who did it traditionally.
Stats SA shows that 11,063 (48,2%) of the 2010 divorce cases were from marriages that were solemnised by religious rites and 9,387 (40,9%) by 'civil' rites.
In civil marriages the couple are married by a marriage officer and in religious rites the couple is married by a priest.
The statistics indicates that in general, marriages that are eventually dissolved are mostly solemnised by religious rites.
However, a higher proportion of dissolving marriages from the African (62,7%), Indian/Asian (55,8%) and the mixed (58,6%) population groups were for marriages solemnised by civil rites.
Pastor Bill Anstruther of the United Apostolic Faith Church, said: "People get married for different reasons. Some people get married because their culture only allows them to live together if and only when they are married. Others because they want to be buried by the church and not because they are religious."
"I'm in touch with most couples I married and they are still together. In our church the proportion of people getting married has been steady," Anstruther said.
Generally, there has been a steady decrease in divorces from 2000 to 2010.
In 2010, there were 22,936, a drop from 30,763 in 2009. There were 34,415 divorces in 2000 and in 2009 there were 30,763. The lowest number of divorces were recorded in 2008 at 28,924.
Also, divorces among whites are decreasing and increasing among black people.
In 2000, 44.5% of all divorces were among white people and 22,3percent were black people.
The rate of divorce among white people has been decreasing and in 2009 it was at 32,4%.
It has been steadily increasing among blacks and reached 34.2% in 2009. In 2010, it was at its highest with 35.6 % - the highest in a decade.
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IF YOU get married in a church, you are more likely to get divorced than those who did it traditionally.
Stats SA shows that 11,063 (48,2%) of the 2010 divorce cases were from marriages that were solemnised by religious rites and 9,387 (40,9%) by 'civil' rites.
In civil marriages the couple are married by a marriage officer and in religious rites the couple is married by a priest.
The statistics indicates that in general, marriages that are eventually dissolved are mostly solemnised by religious rites.
However, a higher proportion of dissolving marriages from the African (62,7%), Indian/Asian (55,8%) and the mixed (58,6%) population groups were for marriages solemnised by civil rites.
Pastor Bill Anstruther of the United Apostolic Faith Church, said: "People get married for different reasons. Some people get married because their culture only allows them to live together if and only when they are married. Others because they want to be buried by the church and not because they are religious."
"I'm in touch with most couples I married and they are still together. In our church the proportion of people getting married has been steady," Anstruther said.
Generally, there has been a steady decrease in divorces from 2000 to 2010.
In 2010, there were 22,936, a drop from 30,763 in 2009. There were 34,415 divorces in 2000 and in 2009 there were 30,763. The lowest number of divorces were recorded in 2008 at 28,924.
Also, divorces among whites are decreasing and increasing among black people.
In 2000, 44.5% of all divorces were among white people and 22,3percent were black people.
The rate of divorce among white people has been decreasing and in 2009 it was at 32,4%.
It has been steadily increasing among blacks and reached 34.2% in 2009. In 2010, it was at its highest with 35.6 % - the highest in a decade.
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