Why is the divorce rate in the jewish community so high? & why has it gotten this high just recently in the past 10 years alone?
Does anybody actually know what the divorce statistics in the frum community are, and how they’ve changed over the past ten years? Personally, I suspect that there has been more of an increase in the focus on divorces than there have been in actual divorces. (Same with shidduch/OTD crises, btw.)
iacisrmma:
There are numerous reasons starting with the shidduch process itself. We expect two people who barely know each other make a decision in 3-4 weeks after meeting less than 10 times; get engaged and barely talk/see each other during the engagement period and then get married and expect everything to work.
LOL. While I don’t know what the exact divorce rate is in the frum community, I am willing to bet that it is a tiny fraction of what goes on in the culture around us where courtships do stretch out for months or years. From the American Psychological Association: “about 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States divorce. The divorce rate for subsequent marriages is even higher.”