Topic:Divorce

Defination of divorce: Divorce is a legal act of ending a marriage.

Causes:
-Divorce is caused when a couple cannot get along with each other on certain issues or lack mutual trust.
-Such as failing to communicate on certain issues like the way to manage the finances of the couple effectively or the proper way to bring up their children.
-The couple may have conflicting beliefs and values.
-It could also be due to family strains whereby the parents of the couple cannot get along with each other, leading to separation from the marriage.
-The couple's marital satisfaction with each other may decrease due to their spouses not meeting up to their expectations they have prior to marriage.
-The couple may also be divorced due to some violent or emotional tendercies of a spouse on the other.
-It could also be due to a spouse that is being addicted to alcohol, drugs or gambling.
-Divorce would most likely occur if any spouse is unfaithful to the other.

Effects:
-Divorce is drafted in a way that children do not neccessarily have a say in the divorce proceedings. Even though, the children may just be innocent bystanders and have nothing to do with the divorce. But to the children, the divorce to them would have a huge impact on their lifes and futures. They may also view marriage differently after the divorce.

-The values of the way we view marriage has changed and deteriorated than in the past. Nowadays, more people view divorce as being acceptable which in turn led to a increasing trend of divorces. Most people view divorce as acceptable as they have a unreasonably high expectation of how their partners would be like and since they would be living with them for the rest of their lives. To these people, it makes sense to them to select the best partner they can find through repeated marriages or trials.

-Another plausible effect of divorce is that it would lead to a spike in juvenile delinquency cases. This is due to the children of those parents that have divorced not having a proper upbringing as in a single parent family, it is harder to cope with the living costs as the costs are not shared with a partner as opposed to being in marriage. The harder the single parent is finding it to cope, the more time the single parent would spend on working and earning an income for the family. This would in turn lead to a reduced attention being directed on the child and instead on working long hours to bring in some income for the family. Due to this reduced attention spent on the child, the child would not receive the upbringing he needs and would have a higher chance to be led astray when he grows up to seek attention from their parent and to channel their unhappiness somewhere else.

-However, divorce may have a minimal impact on society as they are based on personal opinions and does not involve society. For these people that are divorced, life goes on for them as they continue working, finding new relationships and society continues to function as per normal.

By: Zhi Wei (18)

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10:33 PM