Let's Stay Together...or Not: Divorce

Let’s Stay Together

Divorce is ethically wrong because it authorizes the objective within a marriage contract. Nowadays, divorce has progressively become a natural process that is known worldwide, not only affecting both parents except their children as well. Divorce is morally wrong because it authorizes the objective in the marriage contract. Despite of the agreement, divorce continues to affect a majority of a child’s everyday livelihood. In most cases, not only are the children affected but the parents are as well, leaving them deprived from a once stable and normal family home, enduring the struggles of an actual single parent home. Divorce is something that is signified as a normal legal procedure for extinction of a marriage, which will then result in a complete separation of both parents. This will usually include a customary partition of property and custody of children. There have been psychologists who have researched and examined families in broken homes, mainly the child and found that a child’s frame of mind starts to work differently rather than a child living with their married parents. This can worsen later on in a child’s adulthood by reflection of the parents. Therefore divorce can certainly be justified that it is harmful to a child’s everyday morals and actions.

Married couples should be open to trying everything they possibly can to stay together not only for themselves but for the child’s sake because a union of a couple demonstrates a form of “commitment, stability and unity,” author Natalie Abendschein concludes in her article, “The Divorce and What it Has on Children.” These main possessions help a child to grow in the way they should be when reaching adulthood. It is very important for all parents to ac...

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...shouldn’t and should be encouraged depending on the circumstances. The only advice that should be given to parents who are thinking about divorce should first see what traits can be focused on and fixed. Then they should think about all parties who are involved. Sometimes there are situations between couples that only they feel that they should handle, not thinking about everything else that comes with separation. There are those who might want to argue that divorce is something that is normal once there are disagreements and there are those like I, who will always see solutions to temporary or easily fixed issues. Concluding, divorce is much harder when a child is involved, and like any other signs of anguish and neglect needs to be acknowledged before it gets worse and that’s something both parents should keep in mind regardless if divorce is or is not the answer.