Marriage is suggested to be the most stable and secure environment for families to function normally. Marriage is not the only living arrangement for people. It is being more popular for adults to live alone, single parents, and unmarried partners. There are also multigenerational households where more than one generation lives together. There are people who delay marriage. People in America have young people who live independently for a period of time to go to school or to work. It is even being more common for people to just stay single. Not long ago, that was the social norm. The norm now is for young adult to cohabitate, which means unmarried romantic couple lives …show more content…
Some couples may decide to get a divorce for many different reasons. The divorce could be easy or it could be extremely hard. There are studies that say people are happier after the divorce then before, which I could understand. It can be stressful, especially if kids are involved. The book says that women’s living standards go down, while the men’s go up because most the time the men are the breadwinners. After divorces children are mostly to still live with their mother and visit their father on certain days or weeks. If the couple got a divorce and has kids it will affect them too. The kids may have to move to a different school, adjust to a new home, or even make new friends. Some kids will even go through depression depending on how bad the divorce