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.