Dear Readers,
As I was scrolling through my Twitter feed this past Winter Break, I saw hundreds of tweets and posts similar to: “I really wish my parents had never gotten divorced..." “Having divorced parents really sucks during the holiday season.” I have always known divorce was a problem in America, but I never paid much attention to them. But all the tweets and stories I have seen online recently have illuminated to me the fact that high divorce rates and the diminishing nuclear family are one of the biggest problems America is currently facing. We face the problem today of a significantly marginalized meaning of marriage. It used to be one that was sacred, signifying a permanent bond that would never break. I believe that there are only a few exceptions for extraordinary circumstances (such as abuse) where divorce may be necessary, but society makes divorce seem like the solution to any problem that a marriage goes through, no matter how insignificant the problem actually is. The reason I believe that this issue is such a huge problem is because of the various negative effects it can have on children, and I only realized this after I saw those tweets. Studies show that children, whose parents have gone through a divorce, are more likely to drop out of high school, have a lower academic achievement, develop behavioral and psychological problems, and even get a divorce themselves in the future. |
If divorce rates continue to rise among families in our society, imagine the detrimental impact this can have on a vast majority of our kids. Will not a majority of children begin to achieve less academically? Where will our country be in the next few generations if the vast majority of the population is under-achieving and psychologically problematic as we keep continuing at this rate?
I have compiled this site to enlighten you about how serious this problem is. This site contains real testimonies from individuals who have felt the impacts of divorce in addition to frightening statistics that show how America has no intent on changing its current course towards a complete abandonment of the nuclear family. Everybody sees the same tweets I saw every day, but most continue scrolling down their timeline, treating the tweets as significant. I hope this site fixes the ignorance America seems to show to this subject and catalyzes an awakening that can restore our country’s reliance on the nuclear family. Sincerely, Ben |