Alimony

Many couples enter into their first marriage being blindly naïve. Some people believe that all it takes is the emotion called “love” to sustain their marriage, but this is only a smaller piece to an enormous puzzle. Marital bliss is just a myth. In reality, marriage depends upon wisdom and character traits. As we grow as children into adults, we judge people and our surroundings. People take their inner filter to decide what is right from wrong. Unfortunately, our sight is strictly based upon…

Kristen Schmidt 2/12/17 7th John Venn Author, lecturer, priest, inventor, logician, philosopher, college president, teacher, and mathematician are all titles for one man. That man is John Venn. Venn was born in Hull, England on August 4, 1834. He was born to Henry Venn and Martha Sykes Venn. He died on April 4, 1923 in Cambridge, England. He was 90 years old at the time of his death. Over the course of Venn’s life there were several historic world events that occurred. One is that the US…

Imagine you just got married one year ago but something is feeling different, your time isn’t to each other and now its coming to a divorce. I witnessed this myself with my cousin who was married for only a little time had a child and ended up with divorce. In the article “From Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family” authors June Carbone and Naomi Cahn talk about how families changed from the past to today. The authors talk about how people are postponing marriages and…

Divorce is defined as “an act of legal dissolution of a marriage.” (Merriam Webster Dictionary) In more current times, the rate of divorce has significantly increased. It has a varying social and economic implications (Cherlin, A 2009). The divorce rate is highest in the United States than any other county and has been mainly caused by the changing roles of traditional wife and husband in the family structure, infidelity, domestic violence, psychological issues, financial instability, and…

Marriage and Divorce In most developed countries marriage has evolved a great deal compared to a hundred years ago. Waiting to get married till after having had completed a college degree has become increasing common among young adults. The feminism movement has opened the door for women to pursue any career they want, and it is now common for both partners to have full-time jobs. Marriage has also become more of a choice to follow love and has broken the mold of societal expectation on gender…

In Western culture marriage is a major milestone for many people bringing with it many benefits such as longer life span, improved health, and more money. Ninety percent of the American population will get married at least once in their lifetime, fifty percent of those marriages will end in divorce (Washburn, Christensen, 2008). With Americans having a high rate of divorce, I wanted to discover if the state of a couple’s finances played a role in how the felt toward their spouse. Does a couple’s…

Divorce. The three country 's I chose; Spain, Italy, and Ireland have only had divorce in each country for about the same amount of years. Within this time span the results I researched have a immense effect in each of the three places. The end results will show a pellucid picture of what are the reasons people get a divorce. Spain is a developed country that is economically in trouble at this time. Being at such low times can cause a plethora of stress, which leads to problems in a matrimony…

Substance use For most children, during this horrible life event, they reach out for help from friends. Since no peace resides at home beside disappointment and sadness, children spend most of their time with peers. This social relationship can be helpful, but at the same time dangerous. Children may find comfort and love among their fellows, who cheer for them that they have the strength to overcome this trial. However, at the age of 10 to 12, children do not completely understand who they…

The Disintegration of Marriage In America, there is one divorce approximately every 36 seconds. That 's nearly 2,400 divorces per day, 16,800 divorces per week and 876,000 divorces a year (www.mckinleyirvin.com). Divorces not only destroy the lives of couples but it also have negligent impacts on their children. According to recent studies, Forty-three percent of children growing up in America today are being raised without their fathers. I have also seen many children who don’t have their…

Cohabitation is a very controversial topic nowadays since people see downsides when it comes to this type of living situation. The controversy about cohabitation is not only about whether or not it should be permitted but rather if it is a good or bad idea. I personally feel that there is nothing wrong with it and that it should be legal in all states. Cohabitation is a new lifestyle type for many and since it has been practiced for so long that it is now considered a norm, especially since most…