rates in the United States are rising every year more and more. Is everybody marrying the wrong people or are people not giving their marriage a chance? The decline of the respect for marriage in people today has been a major factor in the rising rates. goes up every year, and now about fifty percent of all marriages in America end up in . Compared to zero or one percent in the middle ages, that is a tremendous increase. The ways in which people approach marriage and treat it have changed since then and has influenced our opinions of t ....