This essay is about how a divorce is, in some cases, better than the couple staying together.

To Divorce, or Not To Divorce? Divorce can affect a family more positively in the long run than if a couple stayed unhappily married. Children normally respond very negatively to their parents separating, but if a couple decides to stick together for their child's sake, the negative atmosphere surrounding the child could scar him or her forever. For the adults, a separation hurts, but most people realize the necessity of the situation. If two people …showed first 75 words of 594 total…

…showed last 75 words of 594 total…a divorce. The parents also benefit from the more positive atmosphere. Living unhappily with a person can wear on the nerves and make life dreary. A person does not want to decrease their chances for a happy relationship outside of their own failing one by staying unhappily with their spouse either. Divorce, while devastating, can have more of a positive effect on the whole family than if they the parents lived unhappily with each other.