Regardless, when the divorce laws were eased you redefined marriage from a permanent union of a man and a woman to a union of convenience, expected to last only until someone better came along. The Biblical command that what God had joined let no man put asunder was tossed right into the dumpster. The traditional concept of marriage got pitched at the same time.
abandonment cases and bigamy dropped.
you can’t have it both ways.
women would threaten to make accusations against the ability of their husbands to perform...with women. It was not pretty and it was often petty.