Posted on 12/17/2014 1:07:54 PM PST by Up Yours Marxists
High in the catalogue of social pathologies afflicting marriage and the family in America stands our system of family law, the central purpose of which is to enforce no-fault divorce. In a letter to the Holy Father and the recent Extraordinary Synod on the Family, almost fifty international scholars and religious leaders joined us in urging the Church to consider the effects of no-fault divorce, along with other barriers to faithful, lifelong marriage.
State laws on divorce began to be implemented in the late 1960s, but today have been absorbed into the legal and cultural mainstream nationwide. The logic of no-fault divorce is that spouses should not be trapped in marriages that make them unhappy, or forced into the expense and psychological trauma of proving “fault” in divorce court. If one spouse wants out, the judge’s mandate is to manage the breakup of the family and to protect the interests of the children.
Like the increase in abortions after Roe v. Wade, divorce rates increased significantly with the onset of the policy. As with Roe, there were other contributing factors, especially the sexual revolution, which multiplied the “liberating” effects of the new legal regime. The clear losers in both were children—aborted in ever increasing numbers after Roe, and wounded socially, economically, and spiritually in the wake of no-fault divorce.
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Law isn’t the problem.
Morality is.
Law IS a problem when it protects the immoral and punishes the moral.
Issues of Marriage and divorce between adults (other than ourselves) is none of our business.
Nor should it be the business of the state. The concept of marriage licenses, tax implications, and everything in law regarding marriages should be abolished.
If consenting adults want to get married, they can contact someone of their choice to conduct the ceremony and do it. Why does it have to be the business of the state/government?
Have you gone through one? I think you would be signing a different tune if you had.
The only legitimate business the State has in marriage is the enforcement of a contract.
My sister, who was a special agent with the OSI found out her husband, a former special agent and now private detective, was writing long rambling, vaguely threatening letters to the President. She found this out when she headed the air-force security detachment for Roslyn Carter. The Secret Service gave her copies. Her husband had taken up drinking and developed a number of other problems she could not deal with. (According to him, all the problems were hers.) So, she divorced, at which point his elderly father flew up to have him involuntarily committed as he was so crazy he was now dangerous.
Not all divorce is evil. Not everybody can handle a crazy spouse. Nor, should they be expected to.
Couldn't agree more with this statement. It is neither the State's nor the Fed's business.
Considering that 2/3rds to 90 percent of those who initiate divorce are women I would say it is time to do so!
Are you and the authors of that article completely out of your minds. Not all divorces involve children, and not all marriages involve religion. Are you some kind of religious zealot wanting to dictate to others what your beliefs are. Sounds like what Islam is trying to do.
But if a husband simply decides that he wants to trade his wife in for a newer model...or a wife simply decides that she's "not fulfilled" by her husband that stinks to high heaven and such reasoning makes him/her "at fault".
If conservatives ever want to control the White House, it is time to get out of peoples bedrooms.
It is just the facts people.
Flame me, ban me, I don’t care. You all need to recognize that political fixes cannot fix moral issues.
“everything in law regarding marriages should be abolished.”
You are 100% correct.
I think G-d will take care of the morality part.
I do not trust the government to make decisions on points of morality.
Get govt completely out of the marriage business. the licensing, the taxing, the tax deducting, the determining what is and isn’t marriage, etc.
Man and a woman want to spend the rest of their lives together, perfect. They want to make financial arrangements for each other in case of death, honorable. Make arrangements for children, the right thing to do.
Family health insurance, commerce.
Opting out of a relationship, civil/business law.
visitation in a hospital, spelled out in the marriage agreement and administered by the present representative (none of the hospital’s damp business).
Less government in day to day life equals more life in day to day life.
KYPD
I agree and keep your powder dry.
lol I was expecting to get ‘torched’ on here for my remarks. It may yet still happen, but I’m encouraged to see that others have the same point of view. I honestly didn’t expect anyone to agree with me regarding this.
Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE marriage. I’ve been married with the same person for 20 years. Hell, we were kids when we got married, and were probably stupid for doing it, but it worked. We’ve had lots of kids, and have a great family.
It’s ironic how all of my ‘friends’ back then all but called me an idiot for getting married so young, have all been married and divorced two or three times, and most of them are miserable.
IMO the best interests of the child are served by justice between the parents.
Agree with you.
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