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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
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Subject: American Divorce
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 22:40:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 13 22:40:58 1985
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Some people have discussed the American divorce rate.  I wanted
to submit a short article on the reasons many Americans get
divorced.  Maybe other people can comment on how they relate
to arranged marriages.

(1) One spouse drinks too much alcohol and the other decides
to leave.

(2) One spouse makes a drastic change in lifestyle or profession,
and the other spouse can't accept it.  For example, there was a
couple in which the man was a university professor.  When his
father died, he inherited the family farm and he decided to
go back and run it.  His wife refused to move from an urban
area with its cultural life.  (This problem came up in Rosalynn
Carter's autobiography also, when Jimmy Carter left the Navy -
but they worked it out as we well know).

(3) One partner is interested in romance and the other isn't.

(4) One spouse doesn't like the way the other one is raising
the children.

(5) One spouse has run the household into bankruptcy by spending
too much money or by failing in business.