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From: co20wta@sdcc3.UUCP (Bruce Jones)
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Subject: Re: Greener Pastures and Topics,Bitte!
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 17:31:46 EST
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In article <11952@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> vijaykm@jason.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU (Vijay Madisetti) writes:
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>Question: Considering the high rate of divorce at present
>compared to the rest of the world, is it true that Americans
>expect more from marriage than before or less ? Does
>high technology and economic security detract from family
>ties ? Or has the onset of emotional maturity been hastened
>in most cases,in that, what was once romance is dead.?
>
I don't think it has anything to do with one's expectations.  Rather
the divorce rate grows out of a rapidly changing social scene and
the individual's definition of her/his place in it.  As the
definition changes for each of the partners they usually grow apart.
Add to this a lack of social and economic pressure pushing ideas
like staying together for the kid's sake and you have a high divorce
rate.  

Bruce Jones
bjones@sdcsvax.ARPA