As with life transitions, divorce can be liberating, depressing, frustrating, or traumatic to any person who experiences it. Perhaps the most painful part on the process of divorce is when the children get involved and when they all get trapped in the situation. These children may suffer significant losses in their lives and unless the situation can be handled in a civil manner, they will become prone to the psychological torment that could affect them for the rest lives. The issue of divorce however is becoming more and more intense since for the past ten years, the divorce rate in the United States has skyrocketed to a record high of almost fifty percent. It is also believed that the divorce rate in the United States is the highest in the world and the reason for this is primarily the ever-changing role of the husbands and wives in their household, early marriage, infidelity, extra marital affairs, financial instability, and psychological incapacity.
The issue of divorce is not only the main problem in the American society of today. The custody issue on who is going to gain the right to take care of the children wholly is also a tough one. For the past decade, divorce and the custody battle have rapidly become a significant life event for perhaps millions of Americans each year. "There were more than two million divorces each year, affecting three million adults and more than two million children (Thompson, Parting 18)." Thus people can prognosticate that the American family of today is definitely ill and is in great need of a revival.
The first and probably the most important step in order for couples to have a solid relationship is education. Education is the key to lowering divorce rate. Divorce is one of those issues where private and personal behavior exacts a huge public cost, "but because divorce and marriage are such intensely personal issues, most people are loath to support any program that injects government into the process (Uncoupling 223).
