Divorce and Children Divorce is the termination of a marriage through legal means. About ½ of all marriages today end up in a divorce. It is not like that in every country, however. In other places, divorce is unheard of. Women may belong to their husbands, or there may be some sort of religious obligation to stay married. In America the divorce rate was never this high. If you look at figure *****, you can see how people have gotten more liberal as time went on, and divorce became common, and it was being accepted in society. Some of the common reasons why people divorce are drug or alcohol abuse, sexual pr....

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