Thursday, February 14, 2013

Blog 3: Divorce and Families


Divorce affects people around the world. This is a huge social issue for many reasons; we as humans created it, regardless of where you live you are affected by a divorce in your family. In this specific article an Australian man and woman are getting a divorce and the woman wants the house. She is willing to go to such great lengths that she made up a story about the house being haunted to get the price in the market to go down.

In relation to families, this would drive them apart. The article did not say if this couple had children or not but for the arguments sake, let’s say they have two children. As these children how would you feel? The parents are fighting over assets rather than their own children. But this goes for the same the other way. If the parents fight for the children and the children often feel torn.

Divorce tears families apart, literally in the second half of the article. Another couple from Cambodia fought so hard against 'their' house that the man actually sawed the house in half. The man took the remaining debris and moved to his parents’ house and let his wife keep the half that was still standing.

Marriage as an institution is being pulled apart and ripping families apart all over the world. Around the world these actions are slowly being accepted. Divorce was once unheard of, once the no-fault divorce laws were passed; it became acceptable for reasons of addiction, abandonment, or assault. Now, people get divorced for reasons they can’t even explain themselves. In our societies around the world we should be questioning the facilitation of divorce. Or, food for a though, the easy access of marriage. Regardless, the amount of divorces around the world is significantly higher than it should be.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/13/divorce-stories_n_2679405.html

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