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Haley Zeiler
Professor Williams
English A 8 AM
18 October 2018
We all desire to find our one, true soulmate. The one who we will tie the knot with. The
one that will be our forever love; however, divorce has been present in the United States for
centuries and has never remained constant. The fluctuation in divorce rates is due to several
factors that are both within and out of our control. The final decision to abruptly end what was
intended to have lasted forever has everything to do with the factors that surround each member
in the marriage and the particular humans that are being affected, which ultimately corresponds
to the ups and downs in the recordings of the divorce rates over the years.
Many factors come into play when finalizing a divorce. “Falling out of love” Why is
this in quotations? Should it be? could be just one of the many reasons that this challenging
decision has been brought to a married couple’s attention. “Divorce rates are at such a high rate
because independence is highly valued in our society, but marriage is not an independent
undertaking and requires sharing and yielding to your partners wishes in order for it to be
successful” Where is your in-text citation for this quote? Breakdowns in the communication
between each partner has played a role in several divorces. If you fail to communicate with your
spouse, then you are lacking the most important thing that a relationship feeds off of. Sexual
dissatisfaction has also been a characteristic displayed when expressing the desire for a divorce.
If one or both partners in a relationship are unhappy sexually, then they will wonder amongst
others to fulfill that craving, which can be defined as infidelity. Once the secret of infidelity
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catches up to your marriage, then all of the trust you had for each other vanishes, along with the
marriage. Finances have been an extremely repetitive motive for divorce. If one feels constrained
because they are having to pay for too much or that they are carrying the others dead weight,
then they will most likely want that weight lifted off of them. Quick changes in life style along
with abuse is another commonly seen reason for divorce is society. People undergo stress and
anxiety when quick changes such as a disaster or death occurs, this can affect their ability to love
properly which causes the other partner to feel unwelcomed. As the feelings fester within them
they fight and eventually agree to end things before they get any worse. Abuse is something
everyone wants to steer clear from, so it would only make sense that a person would have a
People who are married before the age of twenty-five are more likely to file for divorce
than those that wait on marriage. The older you are, the more mature and suitable you are for a
life-long commitment. If the current marriage is not the first marriage, then it has a higher chance
of ending. Once someone has gone through the process of divorce once, they no longer fear it
because it is not unknown territory. They lived through it once and know they could do it again if
they needed to. If the religion between two individuals does not coincide, then they are more
likely to separate. Religion is something individuals hold to the highest of highs, and trying to
change that for someone else rarely happens or happens with extreme tension. Uneducated
people, or those who lack intelligence, are the ones who will most likely be seen filing for
divorce. Money is important. You cannot obtain large quantities of money without holding a
powerful job. You cannot hold a powerful job with education and intelligence. Lastly, those who
are addicts or contain a mental illness are at risk of getting a divorce in comparison to others
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because addiction is hard to love, you are loving the drug rather than the person and most
individuals are not strong enough to stay with someone who is mentally ill.
Divorce rates have been recorded over centuries and have gone up some years and down
others. This is because, “before the twentieth century, courts would not allow a divorce decree
unless it could be proven that one spouse was at fault for abandonment, cruelty, mental illness, or
adultery.” Where is your in-text citation for this quote? Due to this restriction, acquiring a
divorce at this particular time was harder and therefore the rates of divorce were low. As time
progress, the rates began to inflate because, “during the 1960s when feminism was just gaining
ground, the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act was passed, which allowed for a no-fault
divorce.” - In-tet citation? Now people had the freedom to file for divorce without restrictions
holding them back, and people wanted to test this freedom which caused an increase in divorce.
It only stayed fluctuating from there on out because there were years that were more challenging
than others and there were some years that provided more money than other years, so the rates
continuously changed. In present times; however, it is highly present because of our drive for
independence and our inability to give rather than receive. As times continue, it will most likely
We all fear change, but sometimes it happens. Sometimes we want it to happen, other
times we just have to accept that it will happen. Divorce occurs because of several elements that
are both controllable and uncontrollable and those elements happens to all kinds of people. Each
divorce case is not like the other, and each year is not like the next. Divorce can stay constant in
one year, increase the next, and vanish in the next two. These fluctuations happen as a result of
the factors and the people and have been calculated for centuries. It is obvious that although they
have been up and down, it has increased more than anything else.
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Works Cited
“Divorce Statistics: Over 115 Studies, Facts and Rates for 2018.” The Smart Choice for Divorce
and Family Law Issues, Wilkinson and Finkbeiner Family Law Attorneys, 2017,
www.wf-lawyers.com/divorce-statistics-and-facts/
Kennedy, Sheela, and Steven Ruggles. “Breaking Up Is Hard to Count: The Rise of Divorce in
the United States, 1980-2010.” vol. 51, no. 2, 8 Jan. 2014, pp. 588-596. JSTOR Journals,
doi:10.1007/s13524-013-0270-9.
Leamon, Shawn. “Why is the Divorce Rate so High in the US? (Recommended).” Divorce and
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Peer Review:
Better express your third idea and possible reword/rewrite the third paragraph
I like how your introduction and closing paragraphs coincide with one another
Watch out for repetitious words and starting your sentences the same each time
Overall, your essay is nice. Make sure to add those citations and make sure that each