Divorce

Disagree:
• Better to end the pain and suffering now then to continue for the rest of your life. It is meaningless and a waste of time to continue with a marriage without love.

• Some say that divorce can affect children badly. However, divorce does not doom children to years of emotional problems or lifelong dysfunction. In fact, exposure to constant parental conflict and unhealthy family situations can significantly impact children's lives in a negative way instead.


Agree:
• The marriage knot is more likely to unravel these days. People get married and divorced as and when they like. They felt that this is a normal process in the 21st century and everyone is doing it as well. This will cause to lose the significance and meaning of the marriage. According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), forty-three percent of first marriages end in separation or divorce within 15 years.

• In a nationally representative, longitudinal study, the sociologists found that about one third of divorces ended high conflict marriages, characterized by frequent fighting, violence, or abuse. When these marriages ended, children did better because they were freed from a tense and dangerous family situation. However two thirds of divorces ended low conflict marriages, characterized not by violence or frequent fighting but by unhappiness and boredom on the part of one or both spouses. When these low conflict marriages ended, children did worse after the divorce because they were not aware of significant problems to begin with. One day, usually with no warning, their family simply fell apart and life changed forever after that.”

• One of the most impressive of these studies shows that divorce was a deeply painful experience for children. They endured more depression, greater learning difficulties, more aggression toward parents and teachers and were two to three times more likely to be referred for psychological help at school than their peers from intact families. It is also found tat divorce took its greatest toll years later, in early adulthood.


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