<p>America has always been a country which advocates freedom for its citizens- the freedom of speech, religion, even the freedom to decide if a marriage must end. Divorce rates have always been notoriously high in the Land of the Free, and many people wonder why. Is it something to do with our culture? Yes it indeed has a great connection with our culture. Our culture is a major contributor to any optimistic or pessimistic conduct of ours. We may heartedly go along with something or refrain from it on the basis of our cultural teachings. Culture is the non-physically (round the clock) present driving force that will define our social outcomes. In this connection the today's increased divorces rates can be one of the parameter that outlines our culture. There is a drastic increase in divorce rates in America in the recent years. What Makes America Great? increased figure has altered the institution of marriage and family in ways not yet fully comprehended.</p><br /><br /><p>However, enough is understood to allow experts in the field to state that increased tolerance of divorce has produced insightful changes in our attitudes toward what we think marriage and family to be. It doesn't mean at all that marriages were perfect in the 18th and 19th century, however that toward the end of the 20th century, the traditional roles of men and women changed greatly with industrialization and urbanization and that has resulted in the disturbed family system. The Law And Its Branches , a political writer, writes "Americans marry in a rather peculiar way: by falling in love." Indeed, many cultures do not see love as a very practical way of choosing a suitor. Instead they tend to rely on common sense, such as the family background of a person, their religion, reliability, political stance, and so on. In Courts Judging God , in his (D'Souza) home land (India), if a person decides to wed a person who is obviously a poor choice, it is up to the neighborhood to gently guide the amorous couple in a very different direction.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>When considering how poorly some marriages in our country fare, such actions on the half of the community seem very wise. Yet our culture would not stand for it, and label such actions as being "nosy". After all, our culture has a great stance on rights to privacy, so when it becomes well known that someone has an abusive husband or wife, no one in the neighborhood very willing to be the first to take matters into their own hands. After all, it is simply "none of our business". Now would it be right for us thinking that America's culture is promoting or encouraging divorce? And what could we contribute to prevent our nation from this plague. But maybe it is time it starts becoming our business. Judith Wallerstein, a psychologist and researcher who writes mainly on divorce, calls our attention to the fact that "first marriages stand a 45 percent chance of breaking up, and that second marriages have a 65 percent chance of ending in divorce". It is pitiful that such numbers are not seen in any other country. Would it be better for us to behave more like Indian society, where we allow ourselves to step into a situation, and do what we know is best for the couple at risk, or would we be betraying one of our most sacred rights as American citizens, which is the absolute privacy of our own lives?</p><br /><br /><p>Since those happy days we have entered into two lengthy conflicts, and our commitments have magnified to breaking point - and all without even reinstating the original budget of yesteryear. The increases we are being told of today, when seen in those real terms, become plainly pitiful! It seems neither Gordon Brown nor his predecessor, or anyone in the present government, has realised that the minute a country declares war or enters into a military conflict, if it really means business and wishes to avoid prolonging the action, it needs to write a blank cheque for its Armed Forces. When our lads and lasses are putting their lives on the line for us they must have EVERYTHING they need to do the job we ask of them as safely, as quickly, and as efficiently as is possible. To provide them with anything less is criminal, and to my mind today we have a government of criminals. Our engagements in both Afghanistan and Iraq have been plagued throughout by stories of a lack of equipment and resources. <i>Data has been created with the help of Essay Writers .</i></p><br /><br /><p>These stories have not gone away. Far from it, many have been substantiated by investigative journalism and television documentaries. I doubt I was alone in feeling ashamed of my country when at one point in the Iraq conflict it was revealed on a television documentary that it was only possible to have just one creaky, old Nimrod aircraft in operation as all the rest, having been cannibalised to keep that one airborne, were grounded. Talk about going to war on a shoestring! Our military lads and lasses have been performing miracles! But perhaps I shouldn't have said that, it might encourage the government to ask them to walk on water to get to the next conflict - and there goes our navy!</p><br />