Pro-family leader laments marriage crisis in Spain :: Catholic News Agency (CNA

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Madrid, Spain, Nov 12, 2010 / 05:46 pm (CNA).- The president of the Institute for Family Policy, Eduardo Hertfelder, has expressed disappointment in the state of marriage in Spain.

The pro-family leader pointed out that so far in 2010, already more than 67,000 marriages have ended in separation and the number of marriages overall has declined.

�The data on marital breakdowns confirms that the there is a marriage crisis in Spain. It demonstrates the need for our leaders to do something to prevent marital breakdowns � or at least mitigate them,� he said on Nov. 11.

Hertfelder noted that during the first half of this year, 67,365 couples separated�3,000 more than during the same period in 2009.  In addition, 93.4 percent of separations ended in divorce.

�The seriousness of the situation� is that �despite the decline in the number of marriages ... the overall number of separations has not gone down, but up considerably.

�This proves the problem is getting worse,� Hertfelder said.

via catholicnewsagency.com