Divorces in the United States Per Year

Divorce Ticker

There have been

divorces in the U.S.
so far this year.

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Please help us reach people by putting this ticker on your website. It shows the number of divorces there have been in the United States so far this year based on the statistics recorded by the National Center for Health Statistics. Our mission is to decrease the divorce rate and this is one of our efforts to bring more awareness to this issue. Please help us by using the following code to put the ticker on your website or blog.

DIRECTIONS: Copy ALL of the code below and paste it in your HTML editor or blog template and it will appear as shown. The Divorce Ticker will not work correctly if the code is altered.

<div id="divorceTickerBox" style="width:210px">
	<div id="divorceTickerTop"><img src="http://www.familydynamics.net/_images/_ticker/ticker_box_white_top.gif" alt=" "  /></div>
    <div id="divorceTickerBody" style="width:194px; background:#ffffff; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#585858; font-weight:bold; text-align:center; font-size:15px; padding:8px;">
    	There have been
    	<div id="divorceTicker" style="width:194px; height:41px; position:relative; margin:6px 0 2px 0; background:url(http://www.familydynamics.net/_images/_ticker/ticker_bkg.gif); color:#ffffff; font-size:24px; line-height:30px;">
            <div id="tickerNum7" style="position:absolute; width:24px; left:2px; top:3px;">0</div>
            <div id="tickerNum6" style="position:absolute; width:24px; left:30px; top:3px;">0</div>
            <div id="tickerNum5" style="position:absolute; width:24px; left:57px; top:3px;">0</div>
            <div id="tickerNum4" style="position:absolute; width:24px; left:85px; top:3px;">0</div>
            <div id="tickerNum3" style="position:absolute; width:24px; left:112px; top:3px;">0</div>
            <div id="tickerNum2" style="position:absolute; width:24px; left:140px; top:3px;">0</div>
            <div id="tickerNum1" style="position:absolute; width:24px; left:168px; top:3px;">0</div>
        </div>
        <strong style="color:#000000">divorces</strong> in the U.S.<br />so far this year.
    	<div id="tickerLinksBox" style="margin-top:10px;"> 
        	<div id="divorceLinksTop"><img src="http://www.familydynamics.net/_images/_ticker/ticker_blue_box_top.gif" alt=" "  /></div>
            <div id="divorceLinksBody" style="width:194px; font-size:10px; font-weight:normal; background:#d0d8f6; line-height:14px;" >
            	<a href="http://www.familydynamics.net/divorce_ticker.htm" target="_blank" style="color:#16329b; text-decoration:none;">Add This Ticker to Your Website.</a><br>                                               
		<a href="http://www.familydynamics.net/anbexp.htm" target="_blank" style="color:#16329b; text-decoration:none;">Help Your Marriage</a> or<br />
		<a href="http://www.familydynamics.net/evaluation.htm" target="_blank" style="color:#16329b; text-decoration:none;">Help Other Marriages</a>.
            </div>
        	<div id="divorceLinksBottom"><img src="http://www.familydynamics.net/_images/_ticker/ticker_blue_box_bottom.gif"  /></div>
        </div>
   	</div>
	<div id="divorceTickerBottom"><img src="http://www.familydynamics.net/_images/_ticker/ticker_box_white_bottom.gif"  /></div>
</div>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	divorces= 949634;
	function tickerChange(numID,newNum) {
		var tickerNumber = document.getElementById(numID);
		tickerNumber.innerHTML=newNum;
	}
	function ticker() {
		var myDate=new Date();
		var currentYear=myDate.getFullYear();
		var beginningOfYear=Date.parse("Jan 1, "+currentYear);
		var currentTime=myDate.getTime() ;
		var minutesPast = (((currentTime - beginningOfYear) / 1000) / 60); 
		var percentPast= minutesPast / 525600;
		var divorcesThisYear= Math.round(divorces * percentPast); 
		var divorcesString=divorcesThisYear.toString();
		var divorcesArray=divorcesString.split("");
		var divorcesArray=divorcesArray.reverse();
		// write array values to the ticker
		if (divorcesArray[0]) { tickerChange("tickerNum1",divorcesArray[0]); } 
		else { tickerChange("tickerNum1","0"); }
		if (divorcesArray[1]) { tickerChange("tickerNum2",divorcesArray[1]); } 
		else { tickerChange("tickerNum2","0"); }
		if (divorcesArray[2]) { tickerChange("tickerNum3",divorcesArray[2]); } 
		else { tickerChange("tickerNum3","0"); }
		if (divorcesArray[3]) { tickerChange("tickerNum4",divorcesArray[3]); } 
		else { tickerChange("tickerNum4","0"); }
		if (divorcesArray[4]) { tickerChange("tickerNum5",divorcesArray[4]); } 
		else { tickerChange("tickerNum5","0"); }
		if (divorcesArray[5]) { tickerChange("tickerNum6",divorcesArray[5]); } 
		else { tickerChange("tickerNum6","0"); }
		if (divorcesArray[6]) { tickerChange("tickerNum7",divorcesArray[6]); } 
		else { tickerChange("tickerNum7","0"); }
	}	
	ticker();
	setInterval ( "ticker()", 15000 ); 
</script>