History and Overview of Religious Divorce In America; Mormons, Islam, Hinduism
This article gives an outline of the history of divorce and its relationship with religious views and state laws. In the sixteen hundreds, legislators and court officials began their search for laws regarding marriage and divorce. In those years divorce rates were very small. Divorce usually happened in the form of abandonment while marriage meant, "A married woman was legally a non-being." Throughout the years divorce rates started to increase as state laws started to replace religious and moral views of the Americans. In some states divorces became an easier thing to do than in others. The religions were affect by this and had to find forgiveness to those broken families. So religions understood then that divorce was an outcome of the growing industry. So people who divorced did not lose their values because now divorce was seen as a problem of society. Laws for marriage have been changing since their beginnings due to the change in believes through the generation/s. The article mentions that in 50 years what we know as marriage maybe a whole new idea. The religions Mormons, Islam, and Hinduism have recently come into contact with Americans and their views (more or less) towards divorce are stipulated in the article.
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