Essay - Causes of Divorce the United States' Escalating Divorce Rates can...

Causes of Divorce

The United States' escalating divorce rates can be attributed to several factors, the greatest of which is the tendency of couples to get married too early, and later in the marriage, the increasing frequency ***** where one or both marriage partners engage in adultery is the s*****gle largest influencer of increasing ***** rates according to Ama***** & Wallin (2001). During the first four years of marriage in fact, those ***** who married at or before 18 have a 9.6 times higher risk ***** divorce accord*****g to David (1997) ***** also ***** findings of the CDC (1997) and their extensive research on the topic.

Many researchers point past the readily apparent reas*****s for divorce including alcohol and drug abuse, lack of communication, physical and verbal abuse to a more fundamental point that drives the growing divorce rate, ***** ***** is ***** shared levels of education and religiosity, a finding by Niehu***** ***** Huston (1999). These rese*****rchers also contend ***** show through a series ***** prim*****ry research projects that the best predictor of divorce happening early in a couples' married life is if the marriage occurs before the age of 18 (which aggress with other studies) and the in each phase of the *****, religiosity is what makes or breaks ***** marri***** itself. In ***** w*****ds the *****ers are saying that ***** single best predictor, apart from adultery, of a divorce occurring in the later ***** a marriage is a major philosophical d*****ference between mates on the *****sue ***** religion. This is so strong of a correlation in *****ir analysis that it generated an R2 correlation coefficient *****.84 at the.01 level of confidence according to Niehuis & Huston (1999). In summary, the escal*****ing ***** rate is attributable to the action of partners, yet more ***** than *****, where a difference in ***** occurs *****t any point, yet most typically at the ***** stages of a marriage, ***** ***** the divorce *****.

References

Amato & Wallin (*****) - People's reasons for divorcing: gender, social class, ***** life course, and adjustment. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Conference of the National Council on Family Relati*****s, November 8*****11, 2001, Rochester, New York, USA. Paul Amato and Denise Wallen. Penn State University.

***** (2001) - National Center of Health Statistics. Advance Data, Number 323. May 31, 2001. First Marriage Dissolution, Divorce, and Remarriage:

United States. Dr, Mosher and Bramlett. Division of Vital Statistics.

David (1997) - Correlates ***** Worldwide ***** Rates. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, Vol 26(3/4), 215-219; 7 refs.; 2 illus.; *****. ISSN: 1050-2556 Lester, David

***** (1978) - A comparison of the probability of the dissolution of first and second marriages. Demography Journal. 15 (3):345-59. 1978.

Niehuis ***** Huston (1999) - Premarital origins of the risk of marital disruption. 8p; ***** Presented at the 61st ***** Conference of the National Council on Family Relations, Irvine, CA, Nov 12 - 15, 1999. Niehuis, Sylvia;

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