linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer) (11/14/85)
Some people have discussed the American divorce rate. I wanted to submit a short article on the reasons many Americans get divorced. Maybe other people can comment on how they relate to arranged marriages. (1) One spouse drinks too much alcohol and the other decides to leave. (2) One spouse makes a drastic change in lifestyle or profession, and the other spouse can't accept it. For example, there was a couple in which the man was a university professor. When his father died, he inherited the family farm and he decided to go back and run it. His wife refused to move from an urban area with its cultural life. (This problem came up in Rosalynn Carter's autobiography also, when Jimmy Carter left the Navy - but they worked it out as we well know). (3) One partner is interested in romance and the other isn't. (4) One spouse doesn't like the way the other one is raising the children. (5) One spouse has run the household into bankruptcy by spending too much money or by failing in business.
debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) (11/20/85)
> Some people have discussed the American divorce rate. I wanted > to submit a short article on the reasons many Americans get > divorced. Maybe other people can comment on how they relate > to arranged marriages. > I remember hearing of a case where a woman sued for divorce because her husband snored too loudly! More seriously, though, it seems to me that divorce rates would depend on society's attitude towards marriage, which need not necessarily be correlated with whether or not marriages are "arranged". If marriage isn't considered a particularly important social institution, one would expect a high divorce rate ... just as one would expect a high rate of marital infidelity. -- Saumya Debray SUNY at Stony Brook uucp: {allegra, hocsd, philabs, ogcvax} !sbcs!debray arpa: debray%suny-sb.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa CSNet: debray@sbcs.csnet