Most people argue that we are living in peak times, we have access to wide variety of knowledge within seconds, we are socially and technologically connected through social networks, mobile phones.
Arguably a larger percentage of the population is more attractive now, not because of any physical changes to human biological make up but rather more access to tools such as make up, hair gel, skin products than previous generations.
The average lifestyle of a UK family is much better than before, many having 2 cars, their own house (as opposed to rented accommodation), holidays etc. This should mean we are happier and stronger as human beings as more of our needs are being met.
However, we keep hearing things like paedophile cases, rape, crime increasing. One are which I would like to focus on is divorce rates.
Divorce rates are at an all time high currently in the UK/USA from various sources. My endless frustrations begin firstly when this issue is largely being overlooked. The importance of a stable family life cannot be stressed enough to determining an individuals overlook on life. A child who has to travel up and down the country from their mother or fathers location will no doubt achieve less.
This notion is supported by many different reports. The damage a divorce does to a child is immense. I can agree with this, the kids that were in my class that 'messed' about, a lot of them were from single parent backgrounds (of course I am not conclusively suggesting that kids from married couples are perfect). Some of these kids were bright and intelligent but obviously their minds were not at ease and they could not focus on the books and as a result a lot of them did not even make it to higher education.
Divorced parents add too much pressure to already under pressure teenagers because of this society's obsession with an unattainable definition of perfection (i.e. you can never look like an airbrushed model because she herself is airbrushed).
Question is why is the divorce rate going up when things are so 'good' in today's age, and more importantly what can be done about it?