Despite the title of this page, don't expect to have a full fledged cure for the entire problem of divorce. Obviously, that's not going to come from any webpage. However, I do hope to present a start in the right direction and that has to come with education.
The main problem with divorce is the fact that it is acceptable in society. There is no problem with getting married, trying it out, seeing if you like your life together, and then going your separate ways and starting up again or not starting up again with another partner. And this can even be repeated several times. Society no longer looks down on such a travesty.
Perhaps we should change our concepts of divorce. We can start by calling it a new name. Society is into changing terminology so that it is politically correct. Let's change the term for divorce to a "failed marriage". That makes it have a different way of looking different focus. It points fingers at the problem. It says that a person has failed in a major effort in his life.
Society might say that if a person cannot succeed in those interpersonal efforts or affairs than why should they believe that he would be able to succeed in other affairs. Whether this is true or not or correct according to research is not important. It will create a debate about the topic and the debate is it will be a win-win debate in which as far as reducing the rate of divorce. A person does not come out looking good whether he says that he only failed in marriage - which is an admission of failure - or whether failure in marriage is not an indicator of failure in other areas which is still an admission of a failure.
In other words, people will have to look at marriage in a different way or dissolution of marriage.
If society treats divorce as a serious negative issue instead of as an acceptable thing which just happens during life, then people might also take it more seriously.
As a later stage the people see society is not very accepting does not accept these failed marriages then maybe they will take the steps that are necessary before getting married in assure themselves that they are marrying the right spouse and going about their dating the right people and according to methods that will keep their marriage together.
Granted most of us probably agree that the politically correct terminology concepts have gone too far and they don't lead to anything. They're just talk and there is a great deal to this.
However, in this particular case we can use the benefits of the changes in the languages and the approaches that are caused by politically correctness in order to wipe out a blight that has been affecting our society for some time and which knows no other cure.
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