With divorce rates seemingly increasing every year in America, it raises a question, are American families in trouble? Divorce used to be something that was shunned, but now it has become generally accepted by society because of how often people go through divorce. Now in America a divorce occurs nearly two thousand four hundred times per day. This statistic is growing year by year, and leaves me to wonder why it is increasing so much. The articles I read on this matter shed light on the question “Is the American Family in Trouble?”. The yes argument written by Isabel Sawhill and no argument from W. Bradford Wilcox both make controversial points to support their quarrel. After attentively reading both arguments I place my opinion with Sawhill,
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Sawhill talks about how race is not the only prevalent problem with families now in America, but how class is now playing an even bigger part than anything else. Divorce is more common among those of lower economic status as opposed to the middle and upper economic classes (45). Class today matters more than it has ever before, without a college education it is hard to get a high paying job and live comfortably. A statistic that Sawhill provides is shocking, “...in 1960, 76 percent of adults with a college degree were married, compared to 72 percent of those with a high school diploma-a gap of only 4 percentage points. By 2008, not only was marriage less likely, but that gap had quadrupled, to 16 percentage points, with 64 percent of adults with college degrees getting married compared to only 48 percent of adults with a high school diploma.”(45). The lower economic class is struggling to be able to obtain and education, and through this they are more likely to get divorced, or never be married at all in the first place. Although class has a lot to do with it, another big problem today for American families is race. Sawhill talks about how much racism there still is with jobs, and talks about how even for low-wage
Sawhill talks about how race is not the only prevalent problem with families now in America, but how class is now playing an even bigger part than anything else. Divorce is more common among those of lower economic status as opposed to the middle and upper economic classes (45). Class today matters more than it has ever before, without a college education it is hard to get a high paying job and live comfortably. A statistic that Sawhill provides is shocking, “...in 1960, 76 percent of adults with a college degree were married, compared to 72 percent of those with a high school diploma-a gap of only 4 percentage points. By 2008, not only was marriage less likely, but that gap had quadrupled, to 16 percentage points, with 64 percent of adults with college degrees getting married compared to only 48 percent of adults with a high school diploma.”(45). The lower economic class is struggling to be able to obtain and education, and through this they are more likely to get divorced, or never be married at all in the first place. Although class has a lot to do with it, another big problem today for American families is race. Sawhill talks about how much racism there still is with jobs, and talks about how even for low-wage