Divorce: A Necessary Evil? As Americas divorce rate continues to skyrocket, it seems that morality continues to Approximately sixty-five percent of all marriages in America end in divorce, and thisnumber does not seem to be declining any time soon. Are we creating a new generation Y ofsingle parents? Is a broken home the wave of the future? If Americans dont get a grip onmorality, this will surely be the case.It is not possible to pinpoint exactly why Americas divorce rate is so high, much higherthan that of previous decades. There are so many issues today that contribute to divorce than hadexisted in the past. Take teen pregnancy, for instance. It is alarming that so many of our childrenare having children themselves. They feel they must get married at fifteen and sixteen because it iswhats right for the baby. Needless to say, most teen marriages under these circumstances usuallyend in divorce. What kind of life is this for a child? What kind of values will they learn from theirparents example? According to Stuart Shepard, staff writer for Focus on the Family, divorcetears down our moral and social responsibility to our children. They see marriages as if thingsdont work out, you can just leave and not work it out (Shepard np). Adult children of divorcedfamilies are three times more likely to get divorced than adult children raised with both parents inthe home (Markman 128). This negative pattern of divorce is one that could go on forgenerations if Americans are not willing to slow down their rate of divorce. Another contributing factor is the fact that divorce is much more accepted by society as awhole. Even though a lot of Americans are attempting to establish more traditional moralstandards for themselves, they are much more acceptable of others actions (Zachary 1). Andwhile many Americans claim to not practice or justify infidelity, it still remains the ...
