uatuba: Based on the graph you posted, the divorce rate spiked after WWII, not WWI. Graph-reading and history, FTW. Divorces after such a horrible war are certainly understandable.

However, the long-term escalation of divorces started in 1965 as you stated...that's when the boomers were in their hippy, overly-rebellious, make things difficult on everyone stage. If ever a generation's kids were to blame for the divorce rate, the boomers would be a good choice.

Sorry. The WWI was a mistype.

As for your second point: Boomers didn't get divorced themselves, but they made everybody else get divorced. Because we are used to blaming boomers for everything, so reassessing that prejudice would require us to think a new thought.

As to the post-WWII divorces: many of them were the result of hasty pre-war marriages, rather than the horrors of war.

RemyDuron: IronTom: Whatever happened to respect your elders?

Technology and society began to advance at such a rate that elders began to appear not only stodgy and strict, which they always were, but often ignorant and bigoted compared to the youth. Instead of being the keepers of knowledge, elders became more like lost and angry children in a world they could no longer understand. Tradition, instead of being unifying, became constrictive and divisive and seemingly pointless.

I had given up on someone saying anything too bright in this thread. This is rather insightful.

Can't wait to hear all the biatching from the children of today's 20- and 30-somethings. Because Boomers invented divorce and everything bad, so everything they do is evil. I suspect that will change when their children are old enough to have been through at least one divorce.

Divorce is always bad unless you want one, then it's cool, right?

I'm really sick of the biatching and whining by "children of divorce." Back in the day, there weren't as many children of divorce, but there were a lot of "children of abandonment" and "children of seeing your dad slap your mom around every night" and a few "children of a dad who has another family the next town over." And then there are the "children of the woman dad's not married to because there's no divorce, so get used to being called a bastard and never seeing dad on Christmas or Easter." Would you prefer that? At least divorce is (usually) somewhat honest: the dissolution of a marriage between two people who can't farking stand each other for one more day. Yeah, it sucks when kids are involved, but shiat happens. Get over it.