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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
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Subject: Re: American Divorce (sanctity of marriage)
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Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 07:59:47 EST
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> 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

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