Divorce Divorce 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 divorce rates. Divorce goes up every year, and now about fifty percent of all marriages in America end up in divorce. 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 the ties of marriage considerabl