Iceland vs. U.S.?

What is the relevance of the Iceland statistic?
Is it not the case that, in the social fabric
in Iceland, bastardy carries little to none of
the stigma that it does in what passes for
culture in the U.S.?

Welcome aboard glratt. You need to read this note.

My error - the column in question, entitled β€œIs
it true half of all marriages end in divorce?”,
can be found here -

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030124.html

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There are currently two additional threads open about the column.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158547&highlight=iceland

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158565&highlight=iceland