ARTS 332_001
December 11th 2012
Info Graphic on “The War on Marriage”
I chose to do this topic because I am passionate about the
institution of marriage and how is affects the American society as a whole,
socially, economically, and emotionally. I feel that people do not know the
facts about marriage and divorce or what exactly in causing divorce in today’s
society.
In my info graphic I chose to make a broken “ring” as the
main graphic, to show a ‘broken vow’ in a way. I also chose to just put my
data (percentages/taglines) in the circle, and have them connected to the
information around the ring through colored lines. I did my infographic this
way to give the information a “chaotic-cycle” feel. I chose to put Mark 10:9 in the center, as that verse in
central to the biblical marriage covenant, although these facts are not
strictly biblical, nor from biblical sources.
My information on divorce, (40% increase of therapists, 50%
of 24-30 year olds, etc.) came from the national marriage project. This
organization publishes a book every year about the “state of the union” of
marriage represented strictly in facts that are current, that year. The facts
are abundant on the downloadable .pdfs, and I had a lot of narrowing down to get
it right.
My information on marriage and dating came from mostly op-ed
pieces (long term research written in newspaper article form.) from these news
sources: CNN, TIME, ABC, Shape Magazine,
Good Women, and the Dr. Phil website. Each was a calculated statistic that was compared thoroughly
to other statistics. Dates of information were considered in picking out
different information to use, since some information is not current.
I enjoyed doing the project, and I am hoping that other
people will see the urgency in the War on Marriage after reading through my
info graphic.
-Kaitlyn Becker Breidenbach
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