why the increase in divorce? Options

[USCavalry]

i saw it on the news or something too lazy to look up the actual numbers but anyway.. the divorce rate has increaed substanityally over the past decades due to several theorized possibilites. two examples: increasing independance of woman with womens' rights and more reliable birth control and abortion.

i think society has become a superficial crack pot of drugs sex and money. then again thats my answer for most things. what do you think?

[coconutter]

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increasing independance of woman with womens' rights and more reliable birth control and abortion.

I'd like to know how increased independence of women has led to higher divorce rates? Is it because women are working now? Or is it that women are allowed to choose their husbands instead of being forced to love someone they don't. That's preposterous to use as a reason of increased divorce rates, when clearly women's rights has mostly helped society grow and become more tolerant of others.

As for the abortion and birth control, what the hell? How is that in correlation to divorce besides sometimes having a child unhappily binds two people together. Children should never be a resolution to a failing marriage. It only makes the child and the two parents unhappy in the long run. My step-cousin is a good example. These reasons are only a cover-up to the real problem. The real problem is, people are unhappy! They don't know what they want and issues such as these are taking the blame for it. Seriously, world, own up to yourselves.

[brooklyneast05]

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I'd like to know how increased independence of women has led to higher divorce rates? Is it because women are working now? Or is it that women are allowed to choose their husbands instead of being forced to love someone they don't. That's preposterous to use as a reason of increased divorce rates, when clearly women's rights has mostly helped society grow and become more tolerant of others.

i don't see how it's that absurd to you that there would be a connection. women can support themselves now and don't need to stay with someone for that. that would obviously have an effect on women being more likely to divorce knowing they can support themselves now vs. before when they couldn't.

no one is saying women gaining equality is bad, they are just saying it could have caused an increase in divorce. we obviously would rather have women's rights than a "good" divorce rate regardless.

That's true, it's so silly though. Although I have seen countless couples act like they're happy when they're really not, and just fill the unhappiness void with material things. Honestly though, how can someone blame the issue of divorce rates on things that HELP society.

Ignorance isn't bliss sometimes.

why couldn't it be because of something that helped society? things that help society can't ever produce a few slightly negative effects in return?

i don't think anyone is arguing an increase in womens rights is the only cause.