So here’s a neat little article on no-fault divorce. I haven’t done additional reseach so I can’t vouch for the stats cited or for the correlation drawn between the institution of no-fault divorce and falling suicide/abuse/divorce rates in the long term, but it does seem feasible to me that an easy out from an emotionally or physically dangerous situation would, in fact, be for the better.
My question is: what about the starter-wife phenomenon and the fickle-spouse phenomenon. After my eyes were opened to it, I came to know about a dozen people in their mid- and late-twenties who had been through a divorce, a surprising number due to (what some described as (though I can never really know)) spousal fickleness. Is the growing phenomenon of spousal fickleness being accounted for in these studies and stats? Will we see an upsurge of divorce numbers and a downturn in quality of life numbers for couples in their twenties when the next set of census data and marriage studies come out? Perhaps I’m jaded, or perhaps I’m just suddenly unnaive, but it seems to me that the nature of divorces playing out across my generation is shifting a bit, perhaps for the tumultuous. But, again, I’m pretty clueless when it comes to love/marriage/social-implications-of-changing-relationship-norms.
In any case, it’s ok with me: at least we’ll get some pretty awesome, angsty pop music out of all the upcoming divorces. Watch out famous musicians/famous-musician-wives: your marriage might get traded for a platinum record.
