Question of the Day: Day 290
Why do you think America has such a high divorce rate compared to other countries? How does divorce impact children?
posted by Michelle at 8:37 AM
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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4 Comments:
Perhaps, because American culture places great values on independence & frowns upon interdependence, or perhaps, simply because it is more acceptable in America.
Personally, I am not fond of ALL the details in "our" traditional wedding vows. "For better or worse" - how bad does worse have get? ... "Obey", Ummm... I don't like the sound of that one... & "Til death do we part", when your are under 30 years old, that's a mighty hefty promise to make. If two people are to commit to one another, they really should make a commitment that they believe they can follow thru with.
Hmmmm...Don't we have MORE of almost EVERYTHING in America?
Everything impacts children... staying in an unhappy marriage, or divorce.
Half a dozen this, that, or the other.
I guess I'd say it is just easier to get in this country. I don't think we've made it too easy, just easy compared to other countries.
Truth of the matter is, maybe we make it too easy to get married in this country. Maybe that's why all the divorces.
It impacts children in both positive & negative ways. Getting a child away from an abusive paent is a plus. However, if the parents are splitting up just for them, then yeah, the kids lose. It is less stable. You do question whether people will be there for you. You fear doing the same thing and potentially stay in bad relationships of your own just to not go down the same road as your parents.
America has a high divorce rate, IMO, because of it's secular stance. Marriage is a religious ceremony with legal implications, but is construed by most people to be the other way 'round.
Many people in America are "expected" to get married, so they learn how to "want" to, and then do.
I don't think American children really learn about relationships until they're smack in the middle of one - then many people start realizing that their decision for a "Until Death Do Us Part" decision was made in ignorance.
Children are affected by everything their parents choose to do - in some cases divorce is preferrable to the potentially dangerous or stagnating alternative of "keeping a promise" that should have NEVER been made.
I don't buy into the idealogy that divorce is "bad", but I do think that people should teach their children the seriousness of the decision to marry, to become intimately involved, and to exercise their own best judgement when deciding whether or not to start, continue, or end a relationship - whether letal / religious contract is involved or not - and to carry out that decision with the example they provide to children in mind.
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