Economic crisis keeping families together… whether they like it or not
Posted by Brad at 7:47am Wednesday, November 26, 2008
An unexpected side effect of the ailing economy…
The economic crisis may be doing what pastors, family therapists and matrimonial counselors have long struggled to accomplish: keeping troubled marriages together.
Marriage counselors and divorce lawyers nationwide say more distressed couples are putting off divorce because the cost of splitting up is prohibitive in a time of stagnant salaries, plummeting home values and rising unemployment.
While the stress of economic uncertainty often worsens already shaky unions, it also can make couples more financially dependent on each other, said Pamela Smock, a researcher at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Well, the GOP has achieved two of its goals: lowering the divorce rate and bankrupting the federal government.
