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is a problem! Not only for the children and families living through one…or two or three, But for the people growing up in America. The problem is that the message being sent, through Americas increase in rates, is that it is O.K. to make a mistake (which is tr ....

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.... 1985 every state had either switched to the No-Fault law or changed their existing laws in some way. The result was a 250% increase in rates from 1960 to 1980 (according to a fifty state survey conducted by the Journal of Marriage and the Family). Also, younger people in the U.S. who are marrying for the first time face roughly a 40-50% chance of divorcing in their lifetime under current trends (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992, P.5). And of those marriages that end in , many will end in the first 3 to 5 years (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992, P.4). Although much of this increase is to blame on the laws themselves the media plays a big part to, espec ....