Our sin-sick, depraved world...





Look at this...






People pass a poster reading 'Divorce Fair. Start your life new' during the world's first divorce fair at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007. The focus was on untying the knot Saturday at what was billed as the world's first divorce fair, with detectives ready to catch your spouse in the act, mediators to help ease the pain of separation, lawyers and a laboratory offering paternity tests. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

What the??? DIVORCE FAIR??? *shakes head*

After doing some research, I found that divorce rates had been on the increase, according to The World Fertility Report 2003, prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. The report stated that "Divorce rates have increased in most countries with data available . In developed countries, the median rate of divorce rose from 13 divorces per 100 for men and women in the 1970s to 24 divorces per 100 men and 27 per 100 women in the 1990s. In developing countries, the median rate of divorce increased from 7 to 12 divorces per 100 men and from 5 to 15 divorces per 100 women. That is, not only has there been a tendency for people to marry later, but the instability of marital unions has been rising. Both trends clearly have significant implications for reproductive behaviour."

I mean, what the? WHY on earth do these people get married in the first place? Does saying the marriage vow mean ANYTHING AT ALL to them? Damn pathetic lah... Seems that more and more people are missing the WHOLE IDEA of tying the knot... What is the top 3 reasons people get divorced? A 2006 survey by DivorceMagazine.com asked readers what had caused their separation or divorce. Taking both genders into consideration, 22.8% of respondents claimed infidelity as the strongest factor, followed by communication problems at 21.6% and basic incompatibility at 18.2%. However, it is worth noting that the poll results differed somewhat between men and women. 27.4% of men chose basic incompatibility as the strongest factor; communication problems came second at 24.5%, followed by infidelity at 19.1%. Hmmm... interesting find... I mean, infidelity or extramarital affairs could have started mainly because of personality incompatibility and communication problems, which is probably why after cannot tahan the wives already, they started to look for someone else.

And nobody seemed to care sorting those two major areas (getting to know the person - personality, and building the communication) out first before getting married, since most people are so keen (and busy) to get all too physical and emotional and "romantic" too early in a relationship. Sigh... it's not a wonder why divorce rates are shooting up like crazy in just 20 years' time. These people need Kingdom Marriage classes man... tsk tsk tsk... God help them...

(This is a SICK post, hence the BLACK colour)