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If you can't "blame" either spouse for breaking their vows and their commitment then obviously you should divide as fairly as possible. No givvies, no automatic custody. No soaking the man because he has a penis and that makes him a bad person.

OK - you are singing to the choir... I am not sure I deserve to be talked to that way, after all I have said in your support.

What do you do then, short of splitting the kid? Most of the time, in my experience, both sides are decent people and loving parents. One would think they could work it out... but look at all the bitterness here! Both sexes have a lot of representatives with awful big chips on their shoulder.

Any validity at all in rewriting marriage law? - I mean... I cringe at the legislating of those "covenant marriages"... and perhaps you can't really enforce marriage vows on couples once one side or the other has emotionally "clocked out"... but what do we do?

Maybe this one can't be fixed.... While I mourn the divorce rate, the main forest fire is over in the "domestic partnership" arena and other sneaky ways of devaluing a marriage tradition that is already in trouble.