West Virginia Divorce Statistics

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People unite in a marriage to make sure that they have someone or the other to share all their joys as well as sorrow together and seek comfort in times of sorrow, as well as enjoy the pleasure of sharing their successes with each other. When they get married, people exchange many vows to remain together in times of joy as well as sorrow and never part ways from one another till death does them apart. However, it merely requires a few tough times to make couples forget all these sweet promises and these rough phases of life seems to make the partners drift away from one another, rather than stick together and brave the storm of difficulties. There are many reasons why the number of divorce cases all across the globe is on the rise and there seems to be simply no ways of it decreasing in the near future as well, what with the development of a few factors detrimental to the institution of marriage as a whole. However, what not many partners seem to consider before deciding to call it quits is the tremendous amount of pain and suffering, mostly psychological that it brings upon those concerned, especially if the couple has children, who have to bear through all the difficult times, without committing any mistake on their part. One of the factors for this drift is the lack of quality time to devote for taking care of our near and dear ones, especially the children who are much dependent on their parents to fulfill all their spiritual needs as well. And before we realize, everything falls apart and then the only possible solution that remains is to go for a break up, a divorce or a separation. The second factor to be blamed for this is the development of an independent frame of mind on the part of the women, who feel that they do not need the assistance as well as the company of the men folk in their lives, and that they are well in a state to take care of all their needs of daily living. With the development of these, there seems to be an ever increasing rise in the rate of divorce cases all across the globe, especially in the developed nations of the world. The United States of America is one such country where the rate is especially high, and West Virginia in the country is also a part of this havoc of the growing number of divorce cases as revealed by the West Virginia Divorce Statistics of the state.

West Virginia Divorce Statistics with respect to the number of children of the couple as well as the duration of marriage in the year 1999

The number of divorces as well as the number of children of the separated partners along with the number of years they have been married is mentioned in the following table.

Number of children Duration of marriage in years
Less than 1 1 to 5 6 to 10 11 to 15 16 to 20 21 to 25 26 to 30 31 to 35 36 to 40 41 to 45 46 to 50 51 to 55 56 to 60 More than 60 Unknown
None 446 2,191 823 364 203 274 251 123 63 27 14 2 0 0 50
One 39 923 586 302 221 173 69 10 4 0 2 0 0 0 26
Two 13 321 533 329 285 75 16 3 3 0 0 1 0 0 20
Three 6 51 126 127 91 12 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Four 1 9 24 23 17 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Five 0 0 2 5 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Six 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Seven 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Eight or more 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Unknown 1 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

County-wise West Virginia Divorce Statistics of 1999

All the counties in this state have been arranged in descending order of the sum of annulments as well as divorces in the year 1999.

County Divorces + Annulments
Kanawha 938
Cabell 593
Wood 548
Raleigh 466
Mercer 421
Harrison 345
Putnam 302
Fayette 292
Logan 273
Berkeley 272
Monongalia 268
Marion 262
Wayne 261
Mingo 250
Greenbrier 191
Wyoming 177
Marshall 174
Nicholas 165
McDowell 161
Boone 154
Jackson 150
Preston 143
Ohio 141
Hancock 132
Hampshire 126
Upshur 120
Mineral 114
Randolph 109
Roane 102
Brooke 97
Mason 96
Lewis 95
Barbour 93
Taylor 84
Wetzel 79
Monroe 75
Clay 71
Morgan 69
Summers 68
Hardy 65
Braxton 54
Ritchie 52
Tyler 52
Calhoun 51
Gilmer 50
Grant 49
Webster 46
Doddridge 41
Pleasants 34
Pocahontas 34
Wirt 33
Tucker 32
Pendleton 31
Lincoln 19

From this table, it is evident that the rate of divorce cases in the state of West Virginia differ from one county to the other. However, even though the number is low in a few of them, it is considerably higher in the others which needs to be brought down with the help of the clergy and the church.

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