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Changing Perceptions of Divorce
Publication Date: January 1994
Publisher(s): Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Steven Bayme
Series: Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 70:2/3
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Social conditions (Marriage and family life)
Keywords: Marriage; Divorce; Family
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Contemporary culture has removed the stigma from divorce, but has failed to replace it with a bias in favor of marriage. Public policy and the media should be reoriented to strengthen marriage; programs should be created to train young people for marriage and to convey realistic expectations of what makes marriage work. The Jewish community must participate in the broader societal debate on marriage and family, communicating its preference for the two-parent form and upholding the family as the antidote to unbridled individualism.