Family

Family Effects of Divorce on Society Increased youth crime rate is caused largely by absent fathers as a result of divorce made too easy. Consider this chilling forecast. When we pass the year 2000, we will see two groups of working age adults emerging. One group will have received psychological, social, economic, educational and moral benefits and the other group will have been denied them all. The first group will have grown up with a father present in the house and the second group will have not had a father present. The groups will be roughly equal in size. In order to be divorced in my parent's era of the fifties, one mate had to be proven adulterous. Legally, one party was deemed guilty and one was innocent. That finding affected each party financially and socially enough so that most couples tried hard not to divorce. In Canada the rate of divorce in 1951 was one out of twenty couples. In the late sixties, the "sexual revolution" began and couples rebelled against the constraints of marriage. Movie makers and journalists became rich extolling the virtues of free love and liberation. divorce, father, one, children, love, child, family, couples, should, group, fathers, about, youth, work, rate, feel, families, crime, that, year, two, present, own, out, need, mothers, marriage, life, groups, fear, community, without, unconditional, takes, superfluous, stigma, society, single, school, rose, role, result, quayle, president, pp, power, party, parent