[01-13-19]

Are divorce rates on the rise?

Assuming the case, more people don't want to stay married.

Like many complex things there are likely a lot of factors.

Women (in many places) don't lose much in divorce. They continue to receive money, they (usually) keep the kids, the house. This may be why most divorces are initiated by women.

Marriage doesn't make as much sense in modern western culture, or it's not as appealing.

People live longer, human lifetime commitment is naturally only x many years(?) (Though life expectancy outpaced divorce I think)

Churches/ religious organizations are weaker. Communities are weaker. Social pressure to stay together may be decreased.

Religion and said sensibility aren't as present in the areas like law and such, where divorce was previously seen as more taboo.

Media / commercialism prefers people who go out and spend, single people do that more(?) So they explicitly or implicitly glamorize and 'sell' this idea.

Leftism / Collectivism seeks to control individuals. Women (sometimes with children) can be dependent on the state for support and protection. They favor more government entitlements and benefits. It's a moral excuse for government to assert greater control and resources. People in government enjoy more power, they explicitly or implicitly seek to enable this environment.

Fewer women are having children, this makes it easier to divorce (and less evil/sadistic. Though given that I wonder why get married? <shrugs>)

Culture project self-indulgent fantasies as ideals. People's expectations are severely out of whack(?) They seek someone to be 'part o their story', not compromise, which might be fine to a point. But they don't clearly communicate these expectations? Maybe they don't know they have said expectations. Or they know they'll be rejected out of hand, so they try to manipulate the situation into said fantasy. … I'm sure that's 100% them and I'm not going out a limb <facetious-smirk> … <shrugs> but that kinda of thing could be another factor.

Without good models presented: culture / media / community / religion. People don't know what to do, and people don't know what to expect.

Maybe they're working from inconsistent models/expectations? Modern life has many different ideals and cultures coming together, more so than in the past. People could be following their traditional models, just different traditions. They assume their traditional models without working out the differences(?)

Maybe traditions / cultures / ideas are ingrained. People might enter into a thing eye-wide-opened with the intention to compromise, but not realizing their 'programming' prevents it when time to do so comes.