The author essentially argues that we should not use marriage and divorce figures from the same year to measure divorce because __________

a. the figures are estimates
b. divorce is not measurable
c. most of those who get married in a given year are divorced in that same year
d. most of those who marry in a given year are not the same people who get divorced in that year


d

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