Divorces rising in Catholic Europe

Divorces rising in Catholic Europe

This isn't too surprising. According to the article linked above:

When the Vatican looks at the state of the Western European family, it is alarmed. It sees parents and children at the mercy of overly secular nations awash in laws and practices that liberalize "evils," from abortion to gay marriage.

Church officials now have another trend to fret about. Divorce has been marching ever upward everywhere in Europe, but nowhere more so than in the continent's three most Roman Catholic countries.

The institution of marriage, says Eduardo Hertfelder, the study's director, "is in crisis."

Comments

[Marc]

If you're not in a happy marriage then it makes sense for you to split rather than staying together.

I think there are many more things we should be worrying about. Such as ensuring victims of rape don't have abortions and that homosexuals don't adopt children.

[ICMike]

Good read on this subject at the National Register. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTU4NDEzNTY5ODNmOWU4M2Y1MGIwMTcyODdjZGQxOTk=

[ICMike]

Link got cut off: It is in two parts here.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTU4NDEz
NTY5ODNmOWU4M2Y1MGIwMTcyODdjZGQxOTk=

[Rita]

The trend in parts of Europe is to just shack-up indefinitely, ( here too, but marriage is still the ideal here) Over there, they refer to eachother as husband and wife when they're not. Oh, and they are not having kids. They're in big trouble.