Divorce
* 'root problem' in our country and is the cause of any number of other social ills.
* Many divorces involve bitter battles about the division of property and assets.
* More divorces occur within the first five years of marriage than at any other period.
* Most divorces affect parents
  - are the result of a complicated process between two people
  - begin with money and end up with broken hearts
  - benefit children
  - focus on the immediate division of assets and income support levels
* Most divorces involve children
  - custody, visitation, and child support
  - young people with young children
  - take place after three to five years of marriage
  - tend to resolve themselves in six months to a year
* Some divorces affect grandparents.
* affects every family - either directly or indirectly through friends
  - many young children deeply and sizable problem in many countries
  - one out of every four marriages today
  - tens of millions of homes, wrecking lives - and breaking hearts
  - the rights of three generations at once parents, children, and grandparents
* allows people to leave intolerable marriages.
* always causes destruction, because it tears a family apart
  - represents the failure of a marriage, and as such it is sin
* are a matter of family law
  - civil matters
  - legal processes
  - separation
* breaks sacred bonds, between husband and wife, and between parent and child.
* brings a reduction in income and standard of living for the vast majority of single mothers.
* can be a major health risk for U.S. adults and children
  - messy and very costly when there are children involved
  - one of life's most stressful experiences
* can bring about both emotional and physical distresses
  - physical stresses
  - destroy self-esteem
  - disrupt a child's development
  - make a parent feel unloved and unwanted
* cause a desire to drinks.
* causes the adulteration of a marriage.
* civil suit dissolving a marriage.
* complex and difficult experience for all family members.
* crisis that threatens the well-being of everyone involved.
* cultural mainstay.
* cumulative experience for the child.
* difficult and often painful and expensive event in a person's life.
* disrupts the life of all children no matter their age.
* does injury to the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign
  - things to otherwise sane and rational human beings
* drastically diminishes women's financial well-being.
* fact of life in human society
  - modern-day life
* failure of a couple's commitment to their marital and family roles.
* financial trauma that no one ever plans or saves for.
* grave offense against the natural law.
* greatly increases the likelihood of being a smoker and, for men, a problem drinker.
* happen, people violate their most deeply held convictions every day.
* help to improve morals and to increase the population.
* impoverishes mothers and children while enhancing the lifestyles of dads.
* increase during economic boom times and decrease during tough times.
* increases men's mobility, and decreases women's.
* involves sin.
* is above all damaging when there are children
  - all about managing different senses of time
* is also a time of emotional extremity
  - different from legal separation
  - traditionally a deviant, shameful life event, which most women avoid
  - as common as the proliferation of dot-com industries
  - at least as hard on children as it is on parents
  - common and is permitted by Muslim law
* is common in American society
  - the United States
* is destructive of the ends of marriage and opens the floodgates of immorality
  - to families and society
  - evidence of the sinful nature expressed in human failure
  - extremely traumatic for children
* is immoral also because it introduces disorder into the family and into society
  - because it introduces disorder into the family and society
  - inevitably about loss and change
* is more common among the working class than among the affluent
  - frequent in families where snoring is an issue
  - most common among couples who have been married only two or three years
  - nature's way of distributing wealth
  - now the single largest cause of childhood depression
* is often a devastating and traumatic event in the lives of couples and individuals
  - lonely and emotionally draining experience for women
* is often the single largest financial transaction of a person's life
  - most financially devastating event of a person's life
* is one of the greatest disasters that can befall an individual
  - most painful and emotional draining experiences that a human being can have
* is one of the most stressful events in a person s life
  - life events a person can experience
  - painful and it is traumatic for children and spouses
  - rare and occurs only after the children's most formative years
  - sometimes a clear cut case of victimization of one party by another
  - the largest part of family law, but it is more than that
  - thought to be harder on moms in part because they generally earn less
  - uncommon in tribal societies because important alliances between families are at stake
* is, by and large, the most powerful re-distributive mechanism in modern society.
* keep steady pace with marriages.
* kind of death.
* leading cause of poverty.
* legal disconnection
* loss in one's life, whether it takes place on reasonable or unreasonable grounds.
* major factor in civility and manners.
* major health risk for American adults and children
  - issue for some religions
* major life stressor for adolescents no matter what the circumstances
  - trauma for kids
  - personal crisis for adults and children
* marriage which both partners have survived.
* means cutting off the root of love
  - to make lawyers rich
* national sickness.
* occurs when a court order dissolves a marriage.
* often brings out the worst in parents
  - leads to a full grief response in children
  - makes parenting and raising children more difficult
* one of only two means by which the marriage relationship is legally terminated.
* perfunctory matter controlled and supervised by the government.
* plays a very important role in society by giving people the right to make mistakes.
* process over which children have no control.
* product of the selfish desires of at least one of the two people involved.
* reality because men and women break their commitments and betray their loyalties.
* reduces family income.
* releases many mothers from tension and depression.
* represents the dissolution of only one relationship, that of husband and wife.
* right that took many generations to gain.
* rite of meaning and import.
* sad and emotional process for all involved.
* serious act of defilement against the spirit and every other aspect of the marriage.
* shatters individuals as well as entire families.
* spells the end of a couple s relationship as husband and wife.
* splits apart families every day
  - the bond of husband and wife, and custody splits the bond of parenting
* step for which few are prepared.
* stressful process.
* tend to occur when the birds are young.
* very painful event in a person's life.
* violates the rights of children to a stable family.