Divorce Rates In America

Register to read the introduction… What could possibly have caused such a spike in statistic? What effect does it have on us as people, and more importantly the children often created in these broken marriages. According to divorce.lovetoknow.com divorce rates have always been rather low, until about 1945 where they spike up to about thirty five percent. They continue to gradually increase, going up to forty three percent, until something unexpected happens. We see a drop, and 1949 we are already back down to twenty seven percent. Interestingly enough, divorce remains yet again consistently low until the seventies, which is when no-fault divorce was enacted, and greatly affected divorce rates, spiking them from a mere twenty one percent in 1958, All the way up to fifty two percent in 1980. The seventies were also the first time a spouse could cite irreconcilable differences as a reason to divorce, making a divorce much easier to obtain. So now that we know the cause, what kind of effects do such high divorce rates have on us as a …show more content…
According to that statistic, 2,000,000 adults and 1,000,000 children were subjected to the effects of a divorce. When a divorce occurs, it can put an extreme amount of tension on not only the two adults, but also between the adults and children. In most cases of divorce, the child will end up with either mother or father, but rarely get to see both. A primary effect of divorce is a shown decline on relationships between child and parent. Support that they receive from home is rated much lower by children from divorced homes, than those from intact homes according to Jane Miller. It is also studied and proven that children with divorced parents are often effected academically, McLanahan of the Harvard University Press published in 1994, a study that concluded the high school dropout rate of children from divorced homes was two percent