The summer issue of the online journal Klal Perspectives (on whose editorial board I sit) is now available, and the subject is not a happy one: the rising rate of early divorce in the Orthodox community. Each of our marriage-age children knows someone or has a friend who is already divorced. That would not have been the case a generation ago. Shaya Ostrov, a therapist in the Five Towns, reports being told by one young client, “So what if I get divorced? Most of my friends already are, and they’re waiting
