Unfortunately it's one of those multi factoral answers...
With the exception of proven abuse, it should be more difficult to get a divorce. Course then the murder rate would skyrocket
The status quo is serial monogamy, not going to change soon either.
Some cool quotes:
I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even
marry you because I loved you. I married you because you
gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults.
And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect
people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage.
And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that
protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them - it was that
promise.
Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school,
marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families
who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.
William Galston, Clinton White House
Commitment has kind eyes. He wears sturdy shoes.
Everything is vivid when he is around. It is wonderful to sit
and have lunch in his gardens around harvest time. You
can taste in the vegetables that the soil has been cared for.
J. Ruth Gendler
We have a group of very passionate, romantic couples.
They sort of enjoy the bickering and the arguing...
to them, it symbolizes real involvement and connection.
John Gottman, PhD, on observations at his U. of Washington "Love Lab"
Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy -
it's supposed to make you married.
Frank Pittman
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers
It is instructive that 87 percent of those incarcerated in American prisons either
don't know who their father is or have not had any contact with their fathers in years.
Herbert London, Hudson Institute