"AND they lived happily ever after." That fairy tale
ending applies to fewer and fewer marriages nowadays. The wedding promise to
love each other 'for better or for worse as long as both shall live' is all too
often just rhetoric. The possibility of having a happy family seems to be a
gamble with the odds against it.
Between 1960 and 1990, divorce rates more than doubled in most
Western industrialized countries. In some lands they increased fourfold. For
example, every year about 35,000 marriages are contracted in Sweden
