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Archival Collection of Talks on Various Bahá'í Subjects

Dr. Kerry Mothersill

Presentations by Dr. Kerry Mothersill

Marriage Breakdown in North American Society

"Divorce is one of most powerful stresses of the life." It compares closely to the actual death of a spouse. Furturemore it is been shown that that stresses of this type contribute to developent of serious medical conditions and long-term psyco-social disorders.

The family has become isolated from its traditional purposes. We now have the categories of nuclear family; long-time family; marriage without children; children without marriage and communal living. Meanwhile the divorce rate continues on the increase.