Yesterday, I, Joseph and Rev. Lee attended a Prepare-Enrich Programme at Beverly Hotel. This is a government-sponsored seminar to train facilitators to help couples to build stronger marriages and stronger relationship.
We were told that divorce rate for non- Muslims in Malaysia has increased from 2.63% in 2000 to 5.20% in 2003. Not too bad but the rising trend is no good. For Muslims, it is worse in the range of 10%-11%.
But the most shocking news is that divorce rate in Taiwan is even higher than in the US. 51% in Taiwan against 50% in US. Imagine, one in two marriages would fail. It was said that when you meet someone after a long break, the common thing to say is not "How are you ?" but rather " Are you separated?". That's sad.
Malaysia is doing the right thing by encouraging pre-marital couples to go through pre-marital counselling and married couples to go through marriage enrich seminar.
The health of a nation is very much dependant on the health of marriages of the people.
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In Australia, they are looking ti implement a law that requires that couples who want to divorce must go through a compulsary marital counseling session - this is to make it harder for people to simply divorce on whim - and to force them to consider the other option of saving the marriage instead of always taking the easy way out.
http://press.arrivenet.com/government/article.php/738023.html
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