Divorce and the Decline of Morality

As the divorce rate of the United States continues to soar rapidly, morality seems to continue to plummet. About 65% of all marriages in the United States are divorced and this number does not seem to decline so rapidly. Are we making a new generation "Y" for a single parent? It is the future wave of a broken house. Unless Americans have ethics, it is definitely a fact. It is impossible to pinpoint exactly why the divorce rate in the United States is very high and far higher than the divorce rate in the past few decades.

When the divorce rate in the American society rose just after the Second World War, concerns about a decline in moral standards and concerns about social stability increased (Furstenberg, 1990). These concerns remain strong today, but now we are focusing on two social policy issues. First, divorce and poverty, especially between women and children. Second, I care about the welfare of the children whose parents are divorced. It is clear that divorce leads to poverty (Kuper, 1996) as the same resource must support two families. Divorced mothers holding children's custody have evidence that it is difficult to enter the labor market again. Another concern of this group is that their health insurance is often provided by their ex husband. However, remarriage is an option to provide a single mother to child a solution to economic problems (Kuper, 1996).

As the divorce rate of the United States continues to soar rapidly, morality seems to continue to plummet. About 65% of all marriages in the United States are divorced and this number does not seem to decline so rapidly. Are we making a new generation "Y" for a single parent? It is the future wave of a broken house. Unless Americans have ethics, it is definitely a fact. Postmodernism first appeared around the 1980s and experienced a busy and chaotic era. The authority is the center, the truth does not exist, the definition of the post-modernist theory which depicts the world as a new era of society is splitting; that expression alone. Those who believe postmodernism believe postmodernism is presently a mixture of past and future, and more specifically the cultural and spatial elements of these different eras (Lemert, 2010).

The divorce rate in the United States has stabilized or declined for 20 years, but Americans have expressed overwhelming concern about marital status. The divorce rate peaked around 1980, but people in different political sectors suggest that divorce is a serious problem in the US today. People who view divorce as a problem are coming from a view that the current divorce rate is very high and society should try to reduce divorce. History has a long history of religious ban and middle class morality, suggesting divorce is a problem.