33.3% Of All Marriages End in Divorce in Costa Rica
For every two couples who gave their words “forever do us part”, before an altar or before a notary in 2011, another signed the dissolution of their marriage bond.
This follows after the data released yesterday by the Civil Registry agency attached to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
According to the report, last year 25,021 officiated marriages and 12,592 divorces, breaks the most on record.
As for marriages, although the past year there was a slight increase compared to 2010 (3.8%), a record couple of links remains the 2009, with27,130 weddings.
Furthermore, the trend of Costa Ricans more inclined to civil unions by the Catholic church.
Of the 25,021 marriages registered last year, 18 325 (75%) were civilians,6263 Catholics and 433 were made abroad.
In the last decade, the Civil Registry reported 102,685 divorces while 268,349marriages were registered.
For the anthropologist of Focus on the Family, Tania Brown, personal and professional goals that many people have done to delay the decision to marry and raise a family.
“Now people seek a higher level of academic study for a better quality of life in terms of material things,” said Brown to DNA Radio 90.7 FM.
Go to a lawyer instead of a priest, is also a growing practice. By 2001, the22,868 marriages, 13,928 were civilians and only 8648 Catholics.
According to Brown, for the costs of a marriage by the Church, some people prefer a civil wedding and then do a religious ceremony.
As for solutions, last year’s figure exceeds 8.22% (1,036) to 2010.
Most of the breaks occurred in September 2011 with 1519. March and May followed with 1222 and 1215, respectively.
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