Divorce and the Elderly

The divorce rate has ballooned over the past few decades, with around 50% of all marriages today ending in divorce. The popular opinion of marriage has changed, and the social mores surrounding divorce have been significantly revised. No longer is divorce tantamount to social suicide. People no longer treat divorcees as if they were defective goods being returned to the store. Attitudes across the board, at all age groups, have changed, and we expect different things from marriage today than our parents and grandparents did.