A divorce is never a good thing, certainly not if children are involved. But toughing it out is not an option either. Marriage is a human decision and we are known for making mistakes, aren't we? And if we did make a mistake, we have to rectify it or try to rectify it.

Over the time, the increase in divorce rate has has a lot to do with (personal) freedom, education and exposure especially of women; and not to the mention the era of women-emancipation and after.

Each period in the article correlates with women's status in society at the time, and is mentioned in there.

It would be interesting to know what were the % of divorces where women initiated it(it's recorded, right?).