Military divorces
Published: Sun, Dec. 04, 2005 12:00AM
Modified Sun, Dec. 04, 2005 04:32AM
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closeRegarding your Nov. 27 article "Weddings in wartime a quick path to divorce":
While I agree that wartime romance, impulse and young hormones can be a recipe for divorce, the reasons for the sharp increase in military divorce rates today are much more complex.
The standard wartime marriage, where a couple is often young and marries shortly before deployment, has existed long before the current war in Iraq. We have to look at what is different now that is causing a dramatic increase in military divorce rates.
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Some, but not all, of the more complex factors contributing to already established problems of spousal absence, stress and disenfranchisement from normal life are: 1) mixed male and female military units; 2) the inability for military spouses to control their finances while overseas; 3) communication between spouses being frequent and negative through short e-mails and quick phone calls; and 4) the lack of commitment to the marriage and family accountability.
We need to provide more counseling to spouses left at home and those deployed overseas on what makes a marriage successful.
Janet Fritts
Raleigh
(The writer is a divorce-law attorney.)
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