Most men remarry within three years. Most women remarry within 5 years. As a result, blended families are developed and increasing at an astonishing rate. The American Association of Christian Counselors reports that remarriages after divorce tend to be unstable, break up more often and end quickly than do first-time marriages. Remarriages are 50% more likely to divorce in the first five years compared to first marriages.
Before Dimmesdale kills himself, he admits his sin to the whole town. Also, Dimmesdale receives treatment from Hester’s husband, Chillingworth, who knows their secret, and is trying to get revenge on them both. Chillingworth ends up realizing that he is going insane with trying to get revenge and believes that he has sinned more than both of them. The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne uses satire to poke fun of the Puritan attitude toward sinning and the punishments of sinning. The reader learns from the text that the Puritan religion looked down on the idea of sin and punishes sinners harshly.
A study conducted in 2004 showed that 3,100 people die each year and 72, 000 are hospitalized due to alcohol. Young Australians are becoming part of this statistic. Another study stated that one teen age 14-19 years dies every week due alcohol consumption. Australia also has one of the highest rates of alcohol disorders in the world. According to the national survey of health and wellbeing, 22% of people who over consume alcohol will develop alcohol use disorders (National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, 2010).
For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University A study in Britain found that at least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying 10 to 14 year old girls may be at even higher risk for suicide, according to the study above According to statistics reported by ABC News, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of bullying This is one reason, one out of many on why you should not bully. These people are depressed and from personal experience you are always down and you do not care about anything. Some people don’t care about other people’s feelings.
Immoral sexual behavior and the pursuit of political advancement led members of the upper classes to avoid marriage, divorce more frequently, and have fewer traditional relationships. As result, the Roman population, already greatly diminished by the civil wars, experienced a noticeable decline in the birth rate. In response Augustus added an important moral dimension to his political program. He passed legislation to encourage marriage and childbearing. The unmarried and the childless suffered political and financial penalties while those with three or more children received special privileges.
They feared to live in such sinful society, because they believed that God predestined people to salvation and others were damned for the rest of time. Those believes explain why the Puritans tried to live according to the bible, and why they feared the Lord to some extent. To get away from the perverted European society, the Puritans migrated to the Northeast to create society completely devoted to serve the lord. They were driven by the fear that God was discontent, and that he would bring hell upon
Overall, being taken out of a stressful household is an easier transition that being a yanked out of a peaceful one. The University of New Hampshire(extension.unh.edu.family/documents.divorce.pdf) found that age and gender play a large role in how each child reacts to having divorced parents. When an infant's parents get divorced it doesn't understand what is going on but feels the low energy level of its parents. The baby will most likely lose its appetite and spit up more. Preschool children often believe that they caused the divorce.
2) Remove them. 3) Replace misbeliefs with the truth. It is important to know and believe the truths that God has revealed in scripture. According to Backus, a “misbelief” is a lie that you tell yourself. “Misbeliefs are the direct cause of emotional turmoil, maladaptive behavior and most so-called ‘mental illness.’ Misbeliefs are the cause of the destructive behavior people persist in engaging in even when they are fully aware that it is harmful to them” (p. 17).
Since the peak in 1994 with 11.0 suicides per 100,000, there has been a 34% decrease. In 2004, the rate was 8.2 per 100,000. The immense change in suicides among young adults have proven to, unfortunately, be rapidly increasing. Sadly, suicide has become the second leading cause of death among college students, accidents being first. According to a top mental health official, suicides outnumber homicides in the United States.
Devlin shows us some facts and examples of divorce rates, one-parent family and murderous kids in America. He says that some social experts consider above examples as evidence for the fall of the traditional family structure and the rise of materialistic, selfish and violence. They believe that family values have disappeared because of the decline of nuclear families with a working father and a mother staying at home to raise 2.5 kids. According to them, all new forms of family, such as one-parent family, “blended” family with children from multiple marriages, family with an adultery or workaholic parent and so on, has make an offspring generation of “cheating, stealing, or hurting other people to get what they want.” Therefore, the solution is a return to the nuclear family. The author also refers to the second group of reformers who desire to a “whole village” approach and oriented culture.