Divorce
is a problem! Not only for the children and families living through one�or two or three, But for the people growing up in America. The problem is that the message being sent, through Americas increase in rates, is that it is O.K. to make a mistake (which is true for most cases). But when it comes to marriage people should not wait until they are married to realize that mistake. The main reason for this misconception and increase in s has a lot to do with the laws, and the changes made to them. If you look back thirty years ago you would see that every state had a Fault based system of . Which basically means you could only get d on grounds of adultery, physical abuse, mental cruelty, ...
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to a fifty state survey conducted by the Journal of Marriage and the Family). Also, younger people in the U.S. who are marrying for the first time face roughly a 40-50% chance of divorcing in their lifetime under current trends (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992, P.5). And of those marriages that end in , many will end in the first 3 to 5 years (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992, P.4). Although much of this increase is to blame on the laws themselves the media plays a big part to, especially with the increasing amount of people who own and watch T.V. I mean that when adults and children see movie stars, sports players and wealthy people, whom most children see as role models, going through large publicized s, it sends a message that it's O.K. to . For example, when the famous Donald Trump got d or when Dennis Rodman & Carmen Electra got drunk one Saturday night in Las Vegas and decided to have a quick secret wedding, but eventually sobered up and got a . Then there's the more recent ...
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