Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. In the opening vignette, Melanie described her parents’ divorce.
2. The United States has one of the highest rates of divorce in the world.
3. A measure of divorce based on the number of divorces that occur out of every 1,000 married women is called the crude divorce rate.
4. A refined divorce rate is the number of divorces per 1,000 people in the population.
5. The divorce rate is now at its all-time high.
1. T
2. T
3. F
4. F
5. F
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