High divorce rate and many step family situation in the US

In the class, I learned about 50 % of the US partents end up with divorce. I was very surprised at this fact because I was burn and raised in Japan and I would say Japan is the country which has one of the lowest divorce rates in the world. ( It is changing,but it used to be.) When I was a small child, all my friends have both parents, father and mother. I thought it is very natural thing to have both parents from the environment I had. However, I started to realize that having single father or mother is not rare thing any more since I started studying in America.

United States has high marrige rate, divorce rate, and re-marrige rate. I was very surprised at knowing the family situations of my friends and classmates here because many people are in the step family situation or single parent situation. According to the textbook, it says about the half of Americans today are step family situation. This means US has very high divorce rate.

I wonder if divorce gives children bad influence. It must be hard for children to accept step family situation. Here, I would suggest US has to have new policy about divorce such as parents have to be together at least children become 16.

Italy is also one of the countries which has low divorce rate because divorce was not allowed until 1970. In addtion, there are many Catholic in Italy. Still, people in Italy have to have 2 years consideration time if people want to get divorce. Those lows prevents divorce, too.

countries which have high divorce rates like the US should have at least good children support for children of single fathers or single mothers. Otherwise, children could not have fair education. I would think all children have to have at least college education like Sweden. if they want to.