Generation X, Less Happy, Why?         Nowadays divorce is so common it's hard for people to try hard, fight through their problems and make a marriage last when there's such an easy way out, divorce. Marriages of earlier generations were sometimes happier, because divorce wasn't the immediate anecdote to family or marital problems. I come to this conclusion from hearing about my moms childhood.         My grandparents have stayed together to this day regardless of their problems …showed first 75 words of 486 total…

…showed last 75 words of 486 total…but I'm glad they thought that way for my moms sake and my own. It may be naive but in the end it opened their eyes and my mom thinks her childhood was happier because of it, and I believe her.         In conclusion, earlier generations may have thought divorce was a crime and may not have known as much as we do but if they were happier like that maybe we should have never learned.