According to what I read, the available church records show 1 out of 2 marriages in Rome ended in annulment since the 14th century. At times the desertion rate for wives in the rural France of the same time period was as high as 80%. When has the divorce rate been any less in history than the 1 out of two failure rate?
source, Barbara Tuchman, "A Distant Mirror"
2006-07-23 08:18:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It hasn't. Colonial America also had a pretty good divorce rate with the most popular causes being desertion, cruelty and adultery. Both sets of my paternal great grandparents were divorced (both sets of my maternal ones were not).
Perhaps shame has made society whitewash the issue. We are supposed to be more cultured than that. It just goes to show that human beings make mistakes and it is not a new thing.
2006-07-23 08:29:30 · answer #1 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in this country probably not until the 60s. when i was a kid, a divorce was rare. as time went on, it became more common. i graduated in 1970, and of all the couples that got married, which were quite a few, i can only think of 2 that are still together. that would be much more than a 1 out of 2 failure rate. instead of retyping my answer, what i meant was, divorce started to be more common after the 60s.
2006-07-23 15:39:39 · answer #2 · answered by chris l 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that it is too easy to become married these days. I write marriage licenses for a living, so I see it first hand every day. The laws are too lax, and people are too eager to just jump in and marry some one they met on the street 10 minutes earlier. In my opinion, it should be very difficult to become married, kind of like the divorce process is now. People would then stop and think about what kind of commitment they are entering into.
2006-07-23 18:28:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure about nationally or internationally...
but i do know that the divorce rate among the enlisted military service member is 75%!
crazy huh!
its hard to be a military spouse, takes more effort than a "regular" marriage i think. i think my husband and i are a rarity in the military...married for almost 6 yrs now, known each other for 9.
its sad.
2006-07-23 15:27:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first lesbians to try to have a "marriage" have now separated. Did you hear about that in the news?
Here is the news link to the story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage_separation
Here is another statistic:
100% of people who live will die.
2006-07-23 15:42:28 · answer #5 · answered by Life 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are we speaking about Hebrew marriages (one man, many women? Roman marriages (one man, one women)? Or something else?
And where? The whole planet? A specific country?
What ever you think you have is mostlikely wrong.
2006-07-23 15:26:18 · answer #6 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gays are going to have a hard job destroying traditional marriage any more than it already seems to have destroyed itself!
2006-07-23 15:23:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first divorce is in Genesis. God separated from man.
We were wrong.
2006-07-23 15:22:13 · answer #8 · answered by DJ SANDMAN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SHHHH, your going to RUIN THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE YOU BASTAGE!
Now the queers are gonna get it too! ROFLMAO
Why should Christians get to beat their wives and kids, dump their bodies and not us?
2006-07-23 15:22:51 · answer #9 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And 50% of marriages end in death eeeek! :O
2006-07-23 15:22:14 · answer #10 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋