Posted by:
yesplease
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Date: September 29, 2014 08:53PM
I understand that the divorce rate rose initially because there's virtually no stigma anymore for divorce(e)s--people who definitely should have been divorced due to abuse, incompatibility, cheating, etc., finally could. But now it seems like it's almost gone in the opposite direction, with tons of people getting divorced for what seems like petty reasons. Does this mean marriage is moot at this point? Or is it a societal problem?
More and more people are choosing to be single, too. But there are also lots of people now who seem to want to get married who can't, whereas just a few decades ago it seems that it was far more readily available.
Do you see this as mostly positive, mostly negative, or just more realistic?
PS: I'm not sure about the answers to these questions myself. As a 20-something who sees tumultuous relationships all over, successful young marriages, broken marriages, TONS of people who want to remain permanently single, etc., etc., I'm just feeling a bit bewildered about the causes and effects of all this change.