Blog 11: For better, For worse

Broken relationships continue to affect many around the world. Unlike other nations, Britain’s divorce rates are on the rise. In 2009 their divorce rates were reported to be at 6.2 percent, as of 2011 the rate has increased to 11.1 percent, which is a 4.9 percent increase in only two years. Some of the reasons causing this dramatic increase are people not marrying for the right reason, not truly loving their mate, and even the cohabitation before (which has been proven to increase the chances of divorce once married). The increase in rates of divorce has come with major social and financial costs. Including affecting children emotionally, having them torn between parents. In order to address this issue a highly respected judge, Sir Paul Coleridge has been working toward starting a campaign to educate couples better on marriage. He plans to have seminars, conferences, and publications that encourage people to enter these commitments more seriously. These efforts will also educate and motivate couples on how to work on and maintain their relationships when things get rough in their relationships. His goal in this campaign is to help strengthen relationships and have more children raised surrounded by love and stability.

This campaign that Sir Paul Coleridge is working on is a great idea and I think it will result in a major decrease in divorce rates. The campaign is good because it allows people to see how divorce has become a problem. Shows them how it would affect their children and their financial stability. There are many people now that divorce and marry off of impulse without thinking of the effects first. When they marry on impulse they often don’t think of how bad things could get at some point during the marriage and how they would handle it, so when those moments come along they decide on impulse once again. This campaign would definitely help people, who make these types of decisions on impulse, slow down and think about the real effects and later result in longer lasting marriages and less divorces. This will also help in decreasing the amount of children’s emotional and cognitive development that is usually affected by parental separation.

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