Marriage is an important institution which protects the husband and wife and any children. Children need a stable home to teach them to be responsible adults. As laws have been weakened, divorce has become easier and an increasing number of couples are getting divorced. As the number of mothers and fathers who are having to raise their kids alone increases, the children growing up in those families are unable to maintain a healthy marriage of their own. They eventually divorce and repeat the cycle creating an increasing number of divorces, until now the number of divorces is declining because an increasing number of adults decide to not get married in the first place. Many today are never marrying due to fear of their spouse being unfaithful. They figure that if they don’t get married, they won’t have to worry about getting a divorce. They can just leave when they want to. They still have kids but without the protection of marriage. We are seeing the fallout in not only the increasing number of kids growing up in one-parent families caused by children who never learned to deal with problems because they learned from their parents that when the going gets rough, you bail out. We are also seeing an increase in violence because they learned to attack someone who doesn’t let you have your way by watching their parents fight. In addition, we are seeing an increase in lack of respect for authority because they never had any consistent discipline and never learned that actions have consequences. See my course on the family and gender at Course URL- https://www.udemy.com/course/value-of-family-and-gender/?referralCode=B59AC09CACA5C0C97BDD