Our Changing Society, by Anonymous

         It’s safe to say our society is changing.  It’s changing in ways we never thought would be possible.  Technology is advancing, medicine is curing diseases they never thought possible, but all together the everyday life of citizens in changing.  In class we talked about the traditional and secular divide.  I feel that this divide is the transition our entire country is going through right now.  We are going away from what we once thought would be forever, to things being more accepted. 

            In the lecture we discussed how in the traditional sense divorce was not welcomed, but in the secular it is.  This is like today society.  Up until the 20^th Century divorce was looked poorly upon, but with the changing society it is more accepted.  A marriage is expected to only last “32 years, and 34% of marriages end by the 20^th wedding anniversary” (Sedghi). These numbers are absolutely insane to me as there are only a few people I know that are divorced.  This chart shows the divorce rate in the United States from 1950-2004.  This increase of divorces is not only common in the United States, but also in other countries as well.  In England and Wales the numbers have been increasing over time, but in 2011 they started to see a decline once again (Sedghi).  These charts show the divorce rate in the United States in one, and the divorce rates in England and Wales in the other. 

           

The divorce rate is happening all over the world with the U.S. having the most, Puerto Rico, and Russia are close behind.

            Once again these numbers are so striking to me.  Looking at how other countries are facing these same issues that we are in America makes everything so surreal that changes are happening all across the world, and fast.

Works Cited:

Sedghi, Ami, and Simon Rogers. "Divorce Rates Data, 1858 to Now: How Has It Changed?" The Guardian. N.p., 2012. Web. 15 Oct. 2013. <http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/jan/28/divorce-rates-marriage-ons>