Divorce is not an option
By Dr. John Boakye
In the past, the commonest word in marriage was love; today, it is divorce. In fact global studies show that while 60 percent of all marriages break down, 20 percent of marriages are lifeless where couples stay together because they feel constrained by social, financial or religious factors.
This means that today, only 20 percent of marriages pass the mark and some sociologists including Watson predict that if the present trend in marriage failures continue, marriage could be wiped out in humanity in the next 60-100 years to be replaced by cohabitation and other forms of man and woman relationships.
It is also a fact that divorce is a leveler with victims cutting across from rich to poor, young to old, Christians to non- Christians. The lifespan of marriage has a wide spectrum. For example, while a client’s marriage lasted just a day, in 1984 Simon and Ida Stern of US ended their 60 year old marriage when he was 97 and she, 91.