Is it the modernized way of thinking, not finding the ones true love, or is it just the simple fact of “I don’t want to be with you anymore?” Does the problem of divorce go deeper than what appears on the surface? Today in the United States 40 to 50% of marriages fail(Doherty 1). The number of Americans getting a divorce has almost tripled in the past 3 years, so what’s the problem? More importantly what problems can this issue create? Through multiple trial and error research examinations, researchers concluded that parental divorce is associated with multiple problems for youth that extend well into adulthood, and has long lasting effects on their ability to sustain future relationships. So what really causes people to get divorced rather than the pathetic excuse of not being happy? Will there ever be a solution to this ongoing problem, or will America fall deeper and deeper into sin?
It is without a doubt that as long as the earth has existed and there have been people to inhabit it, there has always been trouble within the family relationships. Since the 1960’s, America has witnessed a precipitous increase in marriages ending in divorce(Marquardt 26). The entire generation of today’s young adults has been affected some way shape or form by the lasting effects of a parental divorce. A young man, who does not identify himself with any said religion, was observed after his parents’ divorce.
“Well in theory the commandment makes a lot of sense to me, but if your mother and fathers are not honorable people, then they don’t deserve to be honored. My father doesn’t think about the people who rely on him. He had a child, and he didn’t find a way to honor his commandments to them”(Marquardt 26-27).
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In America, about one in every two marriages will end in divorce. Around 60% of those divorcing couples have children. (Cherlin, 2012). Half of the marriages in America end in divorce, and more than half of those couples have children, which means that about every other divorce that is filed in America, a child is impacted. Between 850,000 and 950,000 divorces occur each year. (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC., 2014). Given that roughly 60% of those divorcing couples have at least one child, at least 510,000 children are affected a year. Estimates have been done to suggest that in the near future, 70% of divorces could involve children under the age of eighteen. (Block, Block, and Gjerde, 1986). Because of the large number of children in America having broken families, it is important to understand the effects of divorce on children’s' day to day lives so that they may be provided for in a proper and beneficial way.
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Most people, when thinking about divorce, worry about the impact that it has on the children that are involved. Even though children are most likely better off if totally incompatible parents separate instead of staying together, divorce is about loss and change, and it is still hard for children. Everyone knows that divorce has its effects on children. There are three different sources that try to explain these effects. Graham Blaine Jr. states that divorce is a threat to all children, whereas Rhona Mahony states that divorce is not always the cause of behavioral or academic problems in children coming from divorced families. Yvette Walczak and Sheila Burns state that the extent of the damage can be determined by the parents and their methods of explanation to the children.
There are also the effects of divorce on the children, not just the husband and wife. More than one million children experience divorce every year. One effect of divorce is the parental loss. The children lose the loss of ...
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