Some who were divorced chose to try again, and have found happiness. Others in second or third marriages have not. Yet literature of all periods tells us that marrying to be happy is at best an iffy proposition. Divorce is its corollary. This is an experiment that our children will engage in, whatever models we give them.
Divorce is a right that took many generations to gain.
It is no more a guarantor of happiness than marriage, but also no less. The rate of divorce in our country tells us very little other than that our culture is in transition to new ways of organizing itself. Given the social and technological changes of the past century, this can hardly be surprising. Personally, in spite of the testaments of the Wallersteinians, I'm glad my parents divorced, and I have been since I first began to actually think about it. Opinions expressed are not necessarily shared by members of the Coalition.