CHILDREN OF DIVORCE HAVE PROBLEMS: Statistics show that children of divorce have many more problems than those children who do not suffer the divorce trauma. Therefore, it seems that as a society we ought to be taking steps to reduce divorce and the effects of divorce, required steps such as: increased waiting periods for marriage, increased barriers to marriage, increased waiting periods for divorce, couple's mediation before divorce, couple's therapy before divorce, individual therapy for the parents before divorce, parenting classes on the effects of divorce, therapy for children of divorce, etc.
There are those who might like to make divorce nigh impossible, as it was earlier in this century. But I disagree. That led to much parental staying together that was more harmful to many of those children than divorce would have been.