The good news is that attitudes about marriage and divorce seem to be changing. Some states are beginning to examine whether their divorce laws are too lax. Grass-roots campaigns to help preserve marriage are flourishing around the country. Yet this particular scourge has become so endemic that it is virtually ignored . . . The scourge is divorce, an oddly neglected topic in a nation that has the worst record of broken marriages in the entire world.
Divorce is a 'root problem' in our country and is the cause of any number of other social ills.
The suicide rate for divorced white men is four times higher than married white men. Public Support Americans have undergone a significant shift in attitude about divorce since no-fault divorce was instituted across the nation in the 1970s. For Example . . . California psychologist Judith Wallerstein and San Francisco State professor Julia Lewis released the results found through interviews with 26 adults who endured family breakup. The children of these divorces are still struggling with it 25 years later.