American culture promotes divorce
America has always been a country that advocates for the freedom of its citizens: the freedom of speech, religion, even the freedom to decide whether a marriage should end. Divorce rates have always been notoriously high in the Land of the Free, and many people wonder why. Does it have something to do with our culture?
Yes, indeed it has a great connection to our culture. Our culture is a major contributor to any optimistic or pessimistic behavior on our part. We can wholeheartedly agree with something or abstain from it based on our cultural teachings. Culture is the non-physically present (24/7) driving force that will define our social outcomes. In this sense, today’s rising divorce rates may be one of the shaping parameters of our culture. There is a drastic increase in divorce rates in the United States in recent years. This increase in numbers has altered the institution of marriage and the family in ways that are still not fully understood. However, it is understood enough to allow experts in the field to claim that increased tolerance for divorce has produced insightful changes in our attitudes toward what we think of as marriage and family.
It does not mean at all that marriages were perfect in the 18th and 19th centuries, however, towards the end of the 20th century, the traditional roles of men and women changed a lot with industrialization and urbanization and that has resulted in a disturbed family system. .
Dinesh D’Souza, a political writer, writes “Americans get married in a rather peculiar way: by falling in love.” In fact, many cultures do not see love as a very practical way to choose a suitor. Instead, they tend to rely on common sense, such as a person’s family background, religion, trustworthiness, political stance, etc. In fact, in his (D’Souza) homeland of India, if a person decides to marry someone who is obviously a poor choice, it is up to the neighborhood to gently guide the loving couple in a very different direction.
Considering how poorly some marriages are doing in our country, such actions by half the community seem very wise. However, our culture would not tolerate this and would label such actions as “nosy.” After all, our culture has a strong stance on privacy rights, so when it becomes known that someone has an abusive husband or wife, no one in the neighborhood is willing to be the first to take matters into their own hands. hands. After all, it’s just “none of our business.”
Now, would it be correct for us to think that American culture is promoting or encouraging divorce? And what could we contribute to prevent our nation from this plague.
But maybe it’s time it started to become our business. Judith Wallerstein, a psychologist and researcher who writes primarily on divorce, draws our attention to the fact that “first marriages have a 45 percent chance of breaking up, and second marriages have a 65 percent chance of ending in divorce.” divorce”. It is unfortunate that such numbers are not seen in any other country. Would it be better for us to behave more like Indian society, where we allow ourselves to intervene in a situation and do what we know is best for the partner at risk, or would we be betraying one of our most sacred rights as American citizens? What is the absolute privacy of our own life?
