Here's an interesting article from Christian Post about the overwhelming expansion and acceptance of divorce in the United States.
Here's a few quick excerpts...
My 44-year-old classmates and I have watched divorce morph from something shocking, even shameful, into a routine fact of American life.
The statistics are depressing: Every year “1 million children watch their parents split apart, triple the number in the ’50s.” They are twice as likely as their peers to divorce and more likely to experience mental-health problems. And children in single-parent homes, as we have seen at Prison Fellowship, are more likely to commit crimes.
The brokenness caused by divorce is palpable. The pain is real. There is a reason God says, “I hate divorce.” But He is also the God who makes all things new, Who binds up the broken-hearted.
You can read the rest of the article here...