A thought

[debka_notion]

My mother, in our conversation on Sunday, mentioned that the daughter of a friend of hers, who is in high school or college, I don't know which, was in class and the teacher asked anyoen whose parents were still married to each other to raise their hand. She was the only one who did. That's a terribly frightening statement. Thank G-d, that's not the case for the parents' of my friends, from the list I am bringing to mind. But still- it's strange to think that I'm living in a society where that's the case. Doesn't match the interal patterns (based on my family and assorted fiction) well at all.

Not sure where I"m going with this, but it's late, I should have been asleep a while ago, and it came to mind.

Comments

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

That's not quite what I'm saying. What bothers me is the societal trend towards so much divorce, not that any particular couple gets divorced. I'm not saying that one should stay in a miserable marriage. But what I'm saying is that I don't think that in an earlier point in our history (however you define our) that half of all marriages were people staying together because they didn't want the stigma of being divorced. So there's some social difference that seems, well, less than beneficial.