Divorce In The United States

Divorce is becoming more common. Families are being torn apart due to relationships not having a backbone. In 2010, there was 65,000 fewer divorces that there was in 2008. That is a seven percent drop. Thirty-four percent of all divorces are because of infidelity. Infidelity is the action or state of being unfaithful to your spouse. Another fifty-five percent of all divorces is because the couple starts to grow apart. A minority of couples experience high level conflicts and abuse. A study has been done, surveying 2,484 parents in Minnesota. Out of those 2,484 parents, twelve percent of the 329 couples hoped for reconciliation. In average, 50 to 66 percent of all divorces occur with couples who experience average happiness and low level conflicts.

Forty-six states in the United States have a six month or less waiting time. A waiting time is the times you have to be married before you can file for a divorce. Out of the 46 states, only 10 of those states have no waiting time. In Western Europe, there is a waiting time of three years. After the waiting time is over, and you have filed for a divorce, 46 states require parenting classes for divorcing parents of minors. This means that the parents of minors are required to now take part in the Second Chances Act, educational course. The Second Chances Act is a short, pre-filing parenting educational course that states the new proposal for both parental parties. This is when the U.S. state legislatures propose a modest reform, which at a minimum of a one year waiting time before divorce, including the educational course about reconciliation. Covenant marriage was the first attempt to make a divorce harder to obtain, which is currently available in Arizona and Arkansas still today. Covenant marriage has failed to make a marriage

can benefit over 400,000 children a year. Over half of the marriages in the United States end in a divorce, instead of death. Many Americans wish that the divorce rates were lower, knowing that each and every divorce affects children. An average divorce causes the most harm to the children, instead of the parents. Theses divorces happen only because the parents have drifted apart and handle everyday arguments poorly. The difference between an average divorce and a high conflict divorce, is that the divorces with the greatest potential to harm children occur in marriages with the greatest potential for reconciliation.

Most of today’s divorces are preventable. It unsteadies society and destabilized neighborhood. Remarriages are less stable. Less than 10 percent of divorces are in the age group of 50 plus years out of that 50 percent, every one in four people are getting a divorce. Divorce after being married for decades is common. The rates are now the lowest they have been since the 1970’s. Out of 100 couples, the rates now are only three and a half percent are getting a divorce. That is down by 4.2 percent in 2000. The rates of divorce are declining, because less people are getting