We don't know how many use the mental hospital as an escape. And affairs are lethal to marriage. Then there are all the addictions which take their toll. We know that in this culture couples are in pain. And the evidence shows up especially in the repetitive pattern of divorce and remarriage.
Recent studies indicate that every child of divorce is damaged by it.
No matter how well the parents handle it, the child is emotionally damaged to some degree, with no exceptions. And the children then damage themselves, or they become damagers of the structures in society, and then objects of massive health, poverty, and corrective programs. They drop out of high school, become teen mothers and are jobless far more frequently than their peers. Other studies also indicate that with the destruction of their childhood security base, these children later fare poorly in their own marriages. The divorces of the parents have far-reaching impact into the generations.