Divorce is a word that everyone knows very well, at any age. Nowadays, everyone knows at least one person who has been divorced or whose parents are divorced. Today, approximately 50% of all marriages end in divorce (“No-Fault Divorce,” 2004). By the time half of these couples married and divorced, many of them had children. In 2004, “one in four children lived in single-parent families” (No-Fault Divorce, 2004). After divorce, not only adults suffer, but also children. During divorce, parents are involved in each other, money, possessions and their own pain, and without even realizing it, their children suffer too. Adults are becoming more careless and thinking less about how compatible they are with their partners. Some couples have children shortly after marriage before they adjust to each other. After the birth of children, real problems begin to become more relevant. With the emergence of new problems and at the same time raising children, it becomes very difficult and divorce seems like an answer to the problems. With current "no-fault" divorce laws in most states, couples can obtain a no-fault divorce. No-fault divorce allows an adult to file for divorce without proving that either adult committed a wrong act, such as adultery, abandonment, drugs, or abuse. No-fault divorce also allows an adult to divorce him/her without his/her consent. No-fault divorce is driving up the divorce rate, so a different law is needed. The solution to the increasing rate is covenant marriage. Covenant marriage requires couples to receive counseling before divorcing, and for divorce there must be fault. Even though divorce is a much more…paper issue…more important than covenant marriage. Works Cited Covenant Marriages. (1999, May 7). Issues and disputes on file. Retrieved January 3, 2014, from the Issues & Controversies database. Fackrell, TA and Hawkins, AJ Should I keep trying to fix it?. Retrieved from http://www.divorce.usu.edu/files/uploads/ShouldIKeepTryingtoWorkItOut.pdf Gately, D., & Schwebel, A. I. (1992). Favorable outcomes in children after parental divorce. In Taking a stand (Childhood and society ed., pp. 163-174). Guilford, CT: Dushkin.Jacoby, AL (2013, December 17). Survey Study on personal divorce experience. Irvin, M. (2012, October 30). 32 shocking divorce statistics. Retrieved from http://www.mckinleyirvin.com/blog/divorce/32-shocking-divorce-statistics/ “No-Fault” Divorce. (2004, April 30). Issues and disputes on file. Retrieved January 3, 2014, from the Issues and Controversies database.