This week’s reading, Andrew Cherlin’s reviews the historic changes with marriage, divorce rates, sexual behavior and gender role’s. I can relate to some of the historic patterns and changes of marriage, divorce and women’s role in today’s societies. I was married at a young age and we had three children. At the time, I felt that continuing an education was never an option and so I have chosen to stay home and raise my children while my husband pursued his career in the military. However, after seventeen years of marriage, my husband and I divorced. I was a single parent for a while until I had met someone else. Today, we have lived together for almost ten years but never married. Additionally, since all my children are grown, I have decided
