Re: Increasing Divorce Rate
Just some facts:
A national study of over 1,800 married couples indicated that the probability of getting a divorce was twice as high for couples that had cohabited prior to marriage compared to those couples that had not.
Cohabitation, in my mind, = How much more do you need to know about that person???
The strong proponents of the idea of letting guy know gal, are missing the point that it really is impossible to learn everything about a person in such a short time. Someone blamed the interference of parents in the marriage as one of the leading causes of divorce among desis. While I am not downplaying these as irrelevant, (they are relevant to some extent), I will say, by re-emphasizing my previous view, that a lack of willingness to compromise is the most important reason why marriages dissolve.
Spousal abuse, money problems, unreal expectations are often cited as causes for divorce. But these causes are really effects arising from the real cause: lack of compromise.