[Dilbert San Diego]

This is a sad trend of divorce being so common.

I thik people's expecations of what marriage is and what marriage should be has changed. Divorce was once a last resort, or shameful, now it's no big deal.

But then again, close families like "The Waltons" were not common even in the old days. In so many families, people don't get along, or do something to cause family rifts. That was true in the old days and still true today. So as far as having family to take care of you in your old age, that was always problematical.

[R. Scott]

Divorce was once a last resort, or shameful, now it's no big deal.

When I was a youngun long ago divorce was not only a last resort, it was something only the rich celebrities did. Regular people went out of their way to hide it. A woman who was divorced might as well have walked around with a large scarlet “A” on her chest.
My own parents came close several times, but stayed together “for the sake of the children”. I often wondered how my father stuck it out.