Early marriage was definetly the initial cause of my parents’ divorce. My parents got married at ages seventeen and eighteen for two reasons. First, when my mother was just seventeen years old she became pregnant with me. My father and mother decided that at that time in their lives marriage was the answer to the unplanned pregnancy. They both felt that getting married was the right action to take, as it proved they were being responsible for their actions. Second, my mother and father also needed eachother at that time. Both of my parents grew up in families with overbearing guardians. My father’s parents controlled every aspect of his life including his friends and leisure time. Likewise, my mother’s parents never let her leave the house to go out

In addition, my parents’ differing maturity levels consequently brought about differing parenting styles. My father was always the fun parent. He was the parent who took us to soccer practice and frequently bought us toys at the local Toys-R-Us. On the other hand, my mother felt that as a parent she needed to impose a strict daily schedule. We had dinner at a set time every night, and even had to be in bed by eight o’ clock each evening. Throughout my parent’s marriage my father always had a problem with my mother’s strict and structured schedule. Time and time again, he would undermine my mother’s parental authority so that the family could have fun. He would often keep us out late on school nights just to prove that he could parent any way that he wished. After a while, parenting became an issue in their marriage, since both parented quite differently.

with her friends. Therefore, each of my parents had an overwhelming feeling to escape from their home life. However, as time passed, their reasons for getting married started to fade away, which consequent

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