usiness world, their dependence on financial support has beenreduced. Women are more confident that they can survive alone without the support of aman; so as it turns out, they find it easier to turn to divorce. Do we really have anunderstanding on what the phenomenon of divorce is?Divorce is often considered to be a problem between two adults, and nothing morethan that. Since the children have an attachment to both the parents, it is not surprising toknow that here is a higher percentage in which the mother gets custody of the children -theincrease has been of three million. The most recent increase in divorce has been amongyounger couples, but the ones that leave the greater impact are divorces which are tearingthe family apart.The number of children affected by such divorces have just tripled and is increasing bythe year. Why is divorce giving the children the hardest hit? Children are taught, whetherat home or on the playgrounds of our schools, that a household consists of a mommy,daddy, baby, and maybe even a pet. There is much hostility felt by the children when adivorce occurs; poverty and stress are also other problems. Not all families are well-off tomake it alone. This makes it difficult for a child while growing up. When there is a divorcein the family, it tears in half the perfect family portrait. The fact that the majority of thechildren live with mother when a divorce has occurred has left the importance that a fathersabsence means more than tears can express.Divorce can be viewed in different ways with its different perspectives; for example, afunctionalism would discourage divorce. They view that divorce is a rapid change insociety. Functionalism are not too happy with change. They see this issue from the macroperspective and judge that divorce is bad. A functionalism would look at the socialinformation and ask, Why? Why does divorce occur? Since functionalism look at thegroup instead of the individual,...
