[highball]

I don't know.

I recoil every time somebody says "We need to do it for the children" - that's the cover for all sorts of statist michief.

Personally, I'd rather see marriages harder to get *into*. Make people think about what they're doing before the fact rather than keep them in a bad situation after the fact. I don't think that's very good for children, either.

[Kozak]

Personally, I'd rather see marriages harder to get *into*.

Only if you remove children from unwed mothers, otherwise you will generate more illegitimate births and/or abortions.

[Gondring]

Personally, I'd rather see marriages harder to get *into*. Make people think about what they're doing before the fact rather than keep them in a bad situation after the fact. I don't think that's very good for children, either.

Agreed, but then you have the folks who have the children first and the claim is made that the marriage then provides for stability.

[JudgemAll]

"We need to do it for the children"

Yep, they don't care for the kids, but an inlook into your homes to find an excuse to seize assets and the kids for the benefit of the government.

I think a divorce is better than staying married to a pedophile spouse or a fornicating one having a pedophile boyfriend around... yet our courts will side with the trouble maker because they want to encourage divorce so as to pay judges and lawyers.

Unless divorce becomes a federal issue "divorced" from the local conflict of interests of counties who think through them they can own people, we are dead. Then again our Federal School system is no good either, but at least interstate commerce would not be hampered by a bunch of ugly feminist lawyer money bags

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Personally, I'd rather see marriages harder to get *into*. Make people think about what they're doing before the fact rather than keep them in a bad situation after the fact. I don't think that's very good for children, either.

I believe the article reports that about two-thirds of divorces are from low-conflict marriages; i.e., marriages that can't really be defined as a 'bad situation' except from the narcissistic viewpoint of the parents.

[manwiththehands]

"Personally, I'd rather see marriages harder to get *into*."

Me, too. I heard a relationship "expert" on the radio say: "The problem is not that there are too many divorces, the problem is that there are too many marriages."

[wolfcreek]

Personally, I'd rather see marriages harder to get *into*.

I'd rather it be harder to have children. Maybe a waiting period after marriage to see if it will last.

[Brass]

Divorce rarely solves anything ... it merely perpetuates the problem and everyone involved is hurt.

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