Divorce Rate

I was recently forwarded a link from one of my staunch Catholic friends about Divorce. http://www.divorcerate.org
It is more interesting to read the web page with the theme to "People's Court" running through your head.
50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce, according to Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri.”
These numbers are no longer astounding--I have heard it all of my life time; everyone is getting a divorce. It is apparent that many people who get married don't hold this as a "sacred institution" any more so why are people so keen on limiting who can get married and how.
Some argue that the reason the divorce rate is so high is because society does not keep "traditional values". There is a valid point to this argument. If spouses remained loyal and avoided websites such as http://www.ashleymadison.com people would there be as many divorces? If people were not caught up in Capitalism and the gaining of material goods--would a partner stay home and make sure things run smoothly? As Lady Sibil, from Marie Corelli's "Sorrows of Satan", says about love
To love for love's sake only, is becoming really an obsolete virtue(page 204).
ABC News published a story about the benefits of being married in August 2006. This is the link: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Depression/story?id=2298049
MARRIED PEOPLE LIVE LONGER A new study finds that people who have never married have the highest risk of death in the United States, contrasting with other studies that have found the highest risk in divorced, separated or widowed populations. There are many reasons married people tend to be healthier, not the least of which is they tend to be wealthier.
In a Darwinian perspective one can see that those who stick by their marriages live longer and are able to have more children--and natural selection does the rest. But the numbers of divorce are staggering--and that is a sign of degeneracy.