In Brief... Marriage Failure and Television-Any Connections?

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As curious trends with marriages and TV increase, perhaps the answer to a lifelong marriage is getting rid of the foul content in TV.

According to a May 24, 2001, press release from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 43 percent of first marriages in the United States breakup within 15 years. The press release referred to a recent report issued by the CDC, which also shows that one in three first marriages end within 10 years and one in five within five years. Could there be any connection between this trend and the increasingly immoral content of TV programming?

Cal Thomas gave some good advice in his May 8th column, "Must-Sleaze TV": "Turn off the TV or, better yet, get rid of it. Try dinner table conversation, meet your neighbors, read good books, rent old movies or, if the TV remains, block out all but the really good things. Even network executives might take notice and stop fouling the airwaves, thus raising the standard of popular culture for all."

Sources: CDC; L.A. Times Syndicate.

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