Show Letter L to the Editor j sa a a s My letter is in response to the article Getting Married Too Young Oct 21 The author claims that people marrying young is the cause for Utah's high divorce rate that marrying young is the number one predicator of divorce The problem with both of these arguments is that they are not true First of all Utah does not have a high divorce rate relative to other states Yahoo reports that Utah has the fifth lowest divorce rate in the country so where is the author drawing her claims Utah's divorce rate is high compared to whose The author also states that here in Utah people marry young because Mormons Mormon's dont don't have premarital sex implying that sex is the main reason for these young marriages She follows this logic stating that these young marriages have a low success rate yet backing this claim with no valid source or statistic In reality the Journal of Marriage and the Family reports much lower risk of ofa rl a I h divorce on the part of Women with no premarital sexual experience I could a also so find no source that t backed d the authors author's a laim that getting married young is ish h the num number er one predicator for divorce Had the author done any research whatsoever er she would have found her biases are not backed backed by fact It is irresponsible to publish articles with dubious and altogether made up statistics and the readers expect and deserve more from The Globe Jeffrey J Young W ff V I U- U l' l A. A V w. w o. o r I |