Divorce

United States
November 6, 2007 8:49pm CST
Right now the divorce rate in America is at 50%. why do you feel as though 1 in 2 couples are getting divorced. Do you think its America's style of living that is destroying couples?
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@williamjisir (22819)
• China
7 Nov 07
Good morning, dear Angel. First, thanks for responding to my discussion. Nowadays the divorce rate is getting higher than ever before. I don't think that it is a good idea for a couple to get divorced from breaking up their built-up-family relationship, which brings later side effects to their kid, who can not be brought up in a normal and healthy family in a single-parent family. The side effect can be easily seen from many respects. So I think that the couples need to have more harmonious communication to maintain their family as always. Thanks for your discussion, dear Angel. By the was, I have added you as my friend in the hope that I would have the honor to be accepted as your first friend on your friendlist. hehe. Thanks very much.
• United States
7 Nov 07
haha thanks, my first friend!
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• China
7 Nov 07
You are welcome, my new Angel friend.
• United States
7 Nov 07
I would say its because people jump into getting married. I think people need to live with the other person before they get married. Its a good way to see if you can get along with the stress of work, family, paying bills and such. To many people "think" there in love and jump into marrage without really getting to know each other.
@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
7 Nov 07
Some of it is societal apathy mixed with core groups actually encouraging divorce, single parenting, etc. Even the laws, courts and government are setup go get divorce going and to make divorce lucrative (for one side of the divorce and for the bureaucracies themselves). And of course I cannot ignore the main aspect of marriage and divorce. Some people marry too fast, others marry for horrible reasons and it ends in disaster. Sometimes both people are wrong in the marriage other times there are serious character flaws in a spouse that make the relationship fail. There's also cheating but only the male gender is blamed for it in general. There's abuse, but again males are blamed there for the most part.
• China
7 Nov 07
I think the reason is that today's people are more and more independent,especially women.