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Yuexin Zhou

Professor

English 1201

2 November 2019

Research proposal

Why so many people choose to divorce? Honestly, this has become a trauma to

myself since I was a child. I was six years old when my parents got divorced, at such a young

age it is very difficult to understand why your parents are not living together anymore and

how suddenly you go from living in one house all together to living in two houses separately,

and this was out of blue, before they divorced, I never heard they argued or anything

unpleasant happened. I was so shocked that I did not accept the fact they divorced until I was

ten. My parents never have a proper conservation to tell me the real reason they divorced. I

was afraid to talk about divorce issue because I always assume that I am the reason my

parents got divorced. Now, I was not a child anymore and I have enough courage to envisage

this issue.

Ending a dead marriage with divorce is a manifestation of social progress. It is also a

symbol of civilization to use a rational attitude and solve legal divorce through legal means.

However, just as marriage is not a child's play, divorce is a matter that should be treated with

special care. There will always be some setbacks and crises in long-term marriage life, and

there will be periodic “aversion periods” between husband and wife. I think don't have to

rush to make a decision when the conflict is fierce. People can take a period of time for

calming down and then they should work together to solve the problem. Maybe the situation

will be better after a while. Even if people still have to get a divorce in the end, dealing with

it in a calm manner will cause the two sides to suffer less pain. In particular, divorce cannot

be used as a means of getting rid of contradictions and troubles. If people don't learn from the
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failed marriage, they still have a naive idea about marriage and family, and they will be afraid

of marriage in the future, and they may fall into a failed marriage again and again. Instead of

doing this, it is better to spend more energy to maintain the first marriage. I feel that more

and more people treat divorce is an easy thing, which would not require serious thinking. In

addition, some of my friends got divorced three months after they married! I feel they never

treat marriage is holy and it needs both sides to respect it. I would like to do a research about

how many people did not treat their marriage seriously.

I am interested in find out about how many people get divorced in China for a year.

How many people got divorced all over the world a year? Is there any difference between

different generations divorce reasons? Whether divorce is a better solution for a failed

marriage? How many factors influence marriage divorce?