Monogamy

Arturo Vazquez Riley-5 Ongoing Assignment Chapter 9 In the United States divorces are very common. In fact, over 50% of marriages end up in a divorce. This high number is sad to hear about in today’s society. Our society is rapid and promotes many ideals that might not be ethical or religiously acceptable. Divorce is one of these ideas. The main causes for this is maybe that the couple is incompatibility, infidelity, or maybe they have money issues. Most people would think that the leading…

“Till do us part”. When taken literally, this is a powerful, committing set of words that over two million Americans swear to each year as they tie the knot. Oddly enough, the American Psychological Association states that the current divorce rate in the United States is 40-50 percent. Suffice to say, the majority of these divorcees do not end their marriages because of death, but rather relationship troubles that darken the once bright light that shone over their spouse. The idea of marriage…

According to the online article “The Nine Most Common Reasons Couples Get Divorced” statistic show that 42% of marriages end in divorce, and 34% of married couples divorce before their 20th wedding anniversary. Why do so many marriages end in divorce? People think love is enough for an everlasting marriage, but they are wrong. It takes a lot more than love to have a successful marriage. Many marriages end in divorce from lack of communication, financial issues, abuse, and loss of interest.…

A Different Love In the United States 90 percent of couples are married at least by the age of fifty, however 40 to 50 percent of these couples get divorced, the percent is even higher for subsequent couples. Researchers also took a national survey to see what the most common cause for divorce was, the results concluded that 73 percent of failed marriages were due to lack of commitment. To make a marriage successful both parties must be like the characters in Charles Dickens book, Tale of Two…

The concept of serial monogamy was something I was familiar with, but a term I did not understand until completing the course. My father has been married a total of six times, and my mother has been married twice, but with five serious relationships that followed. We hear divorce rates are on the rise, and there is a commitment problem in America, and maybe so, but I believe it has to do with not being content with what you have. In class I learned serial monogamy has a lot to do with looking…

Is Marriage Wrong for Society? Marriage has been viewed over centuries as a bonding between two people whether the decision is independent or arranged. In the article “What If Marriage Is Bad For Us?” written by Laurie Essig and Lynn Owens, they express why marriage is disadvantageous to society as a whole. As time has progressed the age in which couples are married has only increased, where before it was acceptable to get married at a young age it is now looked down upon. This outlook is based…

Divorce is the action or an instance of legally dissolving a marriage (Webster 1). When one speaks of divorce a person may think solely of the separation of a man and women. Rarely does one think of the effects it has on children. When a married couple brings a child into the world the child grows up viewing the family as a unit. Never does it cross a child’s mind that the unit could become divided. This is when an adult begins to overlook the effects of the separation and what it causes for the…

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…

In today’s world, couples delve into marriage with fairy tale hopes and dreams, believing that forever will just happen. Sadly, fairly tales are not real, and this world that we live in can be cruel and unpredictable. By now almost everyone has heard that the national divorce rate is almost 50 percent of all marriages. This is basically true for the married population as a whole. But for many people, the actual chances of divorce are far below 50/50”(Wilcox73). The main question stands: what…

With the third highest divorce rate in the world, the US has long been considered to have serious problems with long-term marriage commitments (United Nations). However, in contrary to common belief, divorce rates have actually steadily lowered for two decades now, providing hope for new couples that their love may last (Swanson). Past surges in the divorce rate have been commonly blamed on those in early adulthood who “rush” into marriage without truly getting to know their partner. But this…