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The Belief that divorce equals happiness is utterly false. Cormac Burke, a noted authority on marriage and the family says: If in divorcist socities, up to 50 percent of persons who fail to find happiness in marriage, where are they going to find it? In a second marriage? The statistic say NO. The divorce rate, among divorcees who remarry, is three or four times higher than among those who marry for the first time. Divorce does not tend to make for happiness. Divorce thens to make for divorce; and divorce always marks the final collapse of a hope for happiness. Divorce, it is frequently argued, is only meant for the hard cases, for those persons whose marriages have in fact failed, so as to give them the chance to start again. The evidence, however, is becoming massive that the remedy is worse than the illness. Most victims of child molestation come from a single-parent households or are the children of drug-ring members. In a study of 72 adolescent murderers and 35 adolescent thieves, researchers for Michigan State University demonstrated that fully 75 percent of those charged with homicide had parents who were either divorced or had been never married at all. The Philippines and Malta are the only two countries today without absolute divorce.