Essay - Divorce When Do Most Divorces Occur in the United States?...

Divorce

***** do most divorces occur in the United States?

Divorce in United ***** became out of control and it has been going up every year, ***** peak of divorce came during the 20th century particularly in the ***** of 1970s. One ***** ***** reasons behind divorce is where married people do not have time for each other. Work became too demanding and because of industrialization, co*****les opt to work over time. There are two significant factors affecting the r*****ing divorce rate in the United States and elsewhere: (1) men and wo***** are less in need of each ***** ***** economic survival, and (2) gains made in birth control allow men and women to separate sexual activity from having children (Hughes, 2005).

Why do you think this is the case?

There are a lot of reasons why divorce are very common in the Unites States. Based on Wikipedia (*****) the ma***** causes of divorce are:

***** affairs - 27% (29%)

Family strains - 18% (11%)

Emotional/physical abuse - 17% (10%)

Mid-life crisis - 13% (not in 2003 survey)

Addictions, e.g. alcoholism and gambl*****g - 6% (5%)

Workaholism - 6% (*****%)

This means that the family values are being forgotten, having a family is a big responsibility and a life long commitment. M*****rried people are committed ***** their ***** ***** all through ***** they thought that the reason ********** work is to earn a living and support their *****. But then family should be put as top priority because the reason why people live is ***** they are ***** love and therefore work should only come as second priority.

Is divorce too easy to obtain in contemporary America?

***** ***** not easy to ***** because the grounds for filing a ***** differs from one state to another. According to MS Encarta (2005):

***** difficulty of obtaining a divorce in sever*****l of the more populous eastern states, such as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, eventu*****y led ***** a substantial amount of "migratory divorce" ***** so-called divorce *****ns. For instance, a six-week g*****mbling sojourn in Reno, Nevada, could culminate in a ***** and a return to the state of original domicile.

Before extensive l*****islative reform, some spouses ***** in states where divorce was difficult to obtain would travel ***** jurisdictions outside ***** continental United States (usually Mexico, Haiti, or the Dominican Republic) f***** a divorce decree that had none o***** the constitutional advantages, for purposes of local recognition, of a decree ***** ano*****r state. ***** York State courts were the ***** ones to extend formal recognition ***** Mexican divorce *****s, which were popular because they could be obtained after only one day's residence in ***** country by either spouse. This ***** acceptance ***** the courts ***** Mexican *****s ***** recognition of both the number ***** New York marriages dissolved in ***** and ***** unlikelihood of a change in the state divorce laws by the legislature.

The system of migratory divorces was considered by many as discriminatory against the poor, who could