Divorce

The Cause and Effect for Divorce From the past to present, people all over the world have determined to live together so that they can depend on each other to make a living. Nevertheless, some couples are unable to maintain their relationship; therefore they choose divorce, which is one of the solutions to cope with problems between husband and wife. Furthermore, most people think carefully before they get married. However, the divorce rates tend to continually increase nowadays, thus it might be argued that divorces are taking place easier today than in the past. There are three main causes of divorce today: changing woman’s roles, stress in modern living and lack of communication, which are highlighted below (Panse, 2010). The first significant cause of recent rise in the rates of divorce is that women completely changed in their roles. In the past, men had to earn the money to afford the expenses of the family, whereas women only did housework, hence women have no money leading to the dependence of the husbands’ money. Because of these situations, it is too difficult for most women to separate from their husbands. Nonetheless, these situations are entirely different nowadays with women evenly in the workforce. The equality between men and women in roles are very clear at the moment, thus women can work outside to earn money, while men share the household tasks such as cooking, cleaning, washing as well as caring for children. It can be clearly seen that women are independent from their husbands nowadays since they can earn money themselves to support their living costs. Accordingly, the divorce rates have risen recently, ten percent of Americans are divorced and between forty to fifty percent of all marriages end in divorce (Divorce Magazine, 2008). Another cause to confirm the recent increase in divorce rates is stress in modern living. Many people, who live in globalization, have considerable pressures to earn money. It can be obviously seen that stress occurred once they had children, but only thirty-four percent of the couples who divorce have children (Divorce Rate, 2009). In America students generally want to go to good schools so that they can take advantage of hopefully getting into a well-known university. Studying in celebrated universities mostly causes having a good opportunity to find a job or earn a lot of money. This circumstance not only happens in America, but also occurs in many countries. Some people are laid off from their companies; consequently the stress occurs in their family, which leads to divorce. Some families can earn money, but not enough for covering their expenses; therefore it is easy to think about divorce. Nevertheless, the rates of unemployment tend to continually increase; as a result the divorce rate also rises. It is no doubt that the stress in modern living may have led to the recent increase in divorce rates. The final cause of recently increasing divorce is lack of communication. Owing to financial status in each family, many people are fairly busy. For this reason, they don’t have time to talk about their problems with their partners, which produces the likelihood of divorce. Some couples are often quiet when they have problems with each other, as a consequence little problems can be expanded to become huge problems, resulting in divorce. It is quite clear that the more communication that is used, the more the divorce rate will reduce. Although, these three cause of the recent rise in divorce rates are expressed above, there are also two effects of the recent increase of divorce rates: negative effects and positive effects Firstly, the effects of recent enlargement in divorce rates are negative effects. Most couples normally have children when they get married. Accordingly, divorces can have a direct effect on children. Children living in single parent families are more likely to get pregnant as teenagers, drop out of high school, abuse drugs and have aggressively emotional and behavioral problems, which lead to social problems. Some children decide to leave their home when their parents separate from each other, and subsequently they become homeless children. They do not have good opportunities to find a job due to shortage of education. Consequently, crime may likely be the end result. These are significantly negative effects of recent expansion in divorce rates. Secondly, on the other hand, other effects of the rise in divorce rates are positive effects. People, who divorce by consent from their partners, want to have a better quality of life, since they are unhappy with their spouses. Accordingly, they can work efficiently, which results from fine mental condition. They not only have more free time to do many things, but are also free from their spouses’ murmurs. In addition, divorces also get rid of the violent quarrels between husbands and wives who don’t want to be with each other anymore, hence everybody in the family gets better in physical and mental health. These are the advantages of increasing divorce rates. In conclusion, a family is one of the most important parts of society, thus many people had better be aware of the significance of relationships in families. At the moment, divorces have become the substantial problem because of changing women’s roles, stress in modern living and lack of communication. Nevertheless, there are also the two different ways in effects, which are negative and positive effects. Some couples, which have no children, divorce by consent, therefore divorce should be a good solution for these couples to deal with their problems before going further into a marriage that isn’t going to work. On the other hand, some couples who have children should think before they end their marriage in divorce; otherwise innocent children probably become victims for this situation. Although people tend to think carefully before they get married, the rates of divorce continuously rise nowadays. Works Cited Divorce Magazine. (2008). Divorce Statistics. Retrieved from http://www.divorcestatistics.org/ Divorce Rate. (2009). Retrieved from http://divorcerate.org/ Panse, S. (2010). Causes of Divorce. Retrieved from www.buzzle.com