Whatever Happened to Marriage in the US? / Together On the Way / Another Union of Churches in the Works

Whatever Happened to Marriage in the U.S.? Six of ten new marriages fail, victims of divorce or separation, according to the National Survey of Families and Households of the University of Wisconsin. Divorces reached an all- time high of 1,215,000 in 1992. After a decade in which the number of divorces remained flat, they rose 2% last year. This can only be the beginning of a new surge of divorce, as children of divorce now marry and follow the model of their parents who knew only how not to...