> Therefore we've raised the social cost of a divorce until it's only accessible to people who really need to get out I don't know what the time frame for thi

> Therefore we've raised the social cost of a divorce until it's only accessible to people who really need to get out I don't know what the time frame for this statement is, but all over the western world, divorce has been made substantially easier both legally and socially, since the end of WWII. > Because of cultural changes, this doesn't work as well as it has in the past at keeping couples together. Obviously culture and law are bound up together, but the advent of no-fault divorce and the decreasing benefits for the married over the unmarried did far more to make divorce easy, common, and therefore more acceptable than easing the stigma ever did directly.