New handbook designed to help couples turn marriage into a life-time affair We have gone from being one of the most marrying societies in the world to one of the most divorcing.
Broken marriages are so common that virtually no family remains untouched by divorce.
Texas families, like families across America, are under increasing pressure to survive. In 1998 there were 168,585 marriages reported to the Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics and 86,625 divorces. Words and phrases do not describe the damage done to children caught in the middle of parental conflict or who spend after-school hours waiting in empty houses for their single mothers or fathers to arrive home from work. Studies indicate that children of divorced parents often do not perform as well in school, leave home earlier, start families sooner and then divorce more often. Studies about divorce, however, do not provide solutions to the problem.