Heaton and Goodman's Church study that is the source of the popular 6% divorce statistic for temple marriages.

Date
Jun 1985
Type
Academic / Technical Report
Source
N/A
LDS
Hearsay
Secondary
Reference

Tim Heaton and Kristen Goodman, "Religion and Family Formation," Review of Religious Research 26, no. 4 (1985): 354

Scribe/Publisher
Review of Religious Research
People
N/A
Audience
Reading Public
PDF
PDF
Transcription

Table 5: % of ever married persons who ever divorced. Males: 5.4 for temple marriage. Female: 6.5 for temple marriage.

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