What does the high divorce rate tell us about the state of marriage and the family?

Nowadays, there an increasing number of couples divorced and leads to the high divorce rates. However, what does this imply on any effects on the state of marriage and the family? In fact, it is really a severe issue that there's a relationship that relates them altogether.

As we know the reasons of why the divorce rates are getting higher, it maybe domestic violence, difficulties in satisfying the living of family members, etc. What influences have been made to the state of marriage are that, due to the increasing divorce rates, people are likely to be more cautious about what they are doing or going to do. In the mean time, many people are more likely to be cohabiting with each other rather than getting married so urgent.

On the other hand, when a marriage comes to the development of a family, it just look as wonderful as they thought. However there are still many possibilities for spouses getting divorce and it is just as high as we can see; according to a resource from Guardian.co.uk, "...in 2002 the number of divorces increased by 2.7% to 147,735 - the highest annual total since 1996." Although the extract is from the year of 2003, but still the figure is shocking as it say it was 7-year high for divorce rates.

The influences on families can cause chaos as well, such as the childhood of small children, as they are still innocent but inevitably have to face the complexities made by their parents/adults. The responsibilities within family seems to be disappeared as such decision of getting divorce has been made; in another words, either they rushed for a marriage without any further consideration or couldn't think of a way to sort out the problems between the two.