For some, the pain never ends. Most remarry, but they are as likely to divorce a second time. No one is hurt more than the children. Each year more than a million children are affected. Most kids in the United States will live with only one parent by age 18.
Divorce devastates children.
It is time to acknowledge that the church is partly responsible for the breakup of families. In 1960, four-fifths of first marriages were blessed by the church, and there were 393,000 divorces. In 1990, three-quarters of first marriages were blessed by the church, and there were 1,175,000 divorces. Too many churches are failing to teach teenagers why or how to be sexually abstinent. Then, when they come to be married, churches are blessing machines.