[Grunthor]

So make divorce illegal.

[RogerFGay]

Divorce is illegal in some countries, including until recently, at least one Western European country. I'm used to a more traditional American take on the law of Moses; if you and their neighbors can't live with the couple without going crazy, you can't demand they continue living together themselves. There's some do unto others logic in that.

But the western tradition of seeing an implied contract in marriage as a way of translating the rules into civil law was correct in my view. Certainly "social policy" - giving government arbitrary control - is an extremely dangerous and destructive direction.