Posted on 08/07/2023 4:10:45 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
STEVEN CROWDER, THE right-wing podcaster, is getting a divorce. “No, this was not my choice,” Crowder told his online audience last week. “My then-wife decided that she didn’t want to be married anymore — and in the state of Texas, that is completely permitted.”
Crowder’s emphasis on “the state of Texas” makes it sound like the Lone Star State is an outlier, but all 50 states and the District of Columbia have no-fault divorce laws on the books — laws that allow either party to walk away from an unhappy marriage without having to prove abuse, infidelity, or other misconduct in court.
It was a hard-fought journey to get there. It took more than four decades to end fault-based divorce in America: California was the first state to eliminate it, in 1969; New York didn’t come around until 2010. (And there are caveats: Mississippi and South Dakota still only allow no-fault divorce if both parties agree to dissolve the marriage, for example.)
Researchers who tracked the emergence of no-fault divorce laws state by state over that period found that reform led to dramatic drops in the rates of female suicide and domestic violence, as well as decreases in spousal homicide of women. The decreases, one researcher explained, were “not just because abused women (and men) could more easily divorce their abusers, but also because potential abusers knew that they were more likely to be left.”
Today, more than two-thirds of all heterosexual divorces in the U.S. are initiated by women.
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Do you support the GOP movement to end no-fault divorce?
https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3376188
The Texas GOP states in its platform that it wants to end no-fault divorce.
“214. No-Fault Divorce: We urge the Legislature to rescind unilateral no-fault divorce laws, to support
covenant marriage, and to pass legislation extending the period of time in which a divorce may occur to six
months after the date of filing for divorce.”
https://texasgop.org/platform/
Nebraska wants to limit it.
“We believe no-fault divorce should be limited to situations in which the couple has no children of the marriage.”
https://ne.gop/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/NEGOP-Platform-2021.pdf
Louisiana GOP is considering calling for the elimination of no-fault divorce in its platform.
https://www.wwno.org/news/2023-01-12/louisiana-republican-party-considers-backing-elimination-of-no-fault-divorce
‘Anti-feminist’ female influencer sparks FURY after arguing that divorce should be ILLEGAL - and insisting that women shouldn’t have the right to VOTE because they can’t be drafted
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4161461/posts
If Marriage Can Mean Anything, It Will Soon Mean Nothing: The Respect for Marriage Act lets the government establish a permanent presence in your personal life while redefining your relationships
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4112791/posts
My parents divorced in 1963.
My father moved from New York to Alabama for a period of time.
Nevada was another state divorce was sought in.
It looks like all of the big Leftist news and opinion-shaping websites have stories about this.
The Daily Beast looks like the latest one to come out on this. Those evil Republicans are gonna take away a prized possession of the FemiNazis! Next thing you know the Pubbies will do is take away The Pill and the right of women to vote!
Watch Out for Renewed GOP Assaults on No-Fault Divorce
https://www.thedailybeast.com/watch-out-for-renewed-gop-assaults-on-no-fault-divorce#:~:text=This%20includes%20efforts%20to%20repeal,no%2Dfault%20divorce%20laws%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D
No fault divorce is as beneficial as no-fault insurance.
I’d do away with both.
“The Respect for Marriage Act lets the government establish a permanent presence in your personal life while redefining your relationships”
I don’t support this at all. Why would anyone want to allow the government to decide such intimate aspects of your personal affairs?
“Family law” in general is stacked against men and is more than a bit of a disaster for our country.
I suspect that effort would be better spent educating high school students in what it takes to have a successful marriage.
Supreme court case in the 60s that allowed for no fault divorce is the tipping point moment of our cultural decline and social ills.
And Crowder has a temper problem he needs to work on too.
“no-fault insurance”
Lawyers are expensive. Lawsuits are a pain.
No-fault divorce is just a euphemism for outlawing marriage: preventing a couple from freely entering into to a permanent covenant. We now live in a society where a car loan is more enforceable than what should be the most sacred and binding vow a person can make.
How ‘bout No Fault Mortgage? Yeahh, I’m sure that’s one contract they won’t re-define.
When the government sets the terms for a private contract the contract is no longer private, it is a public contract with the state. Who wants the state’s representative living off their dime, in their house?
I live in NYS.
I have some experience with no-fault.
Which is why I consider it an abomination.
BTW, there are worse things than lawyers and lawsuits.
Like the state rigging outcomes.
That’s essentially what no-fault does.
And it’s not to the benefit of the general public.
I would be a hypocrite to denounce no-fault divorce - but since it’s a creation of legislatures in the first place, they should be taking a look at it.
No fault divorce was needed so abused spouses could leave a marriage “easier”? No other remedy could be used?
“In their book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps, sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that 31% of adolescents with divorced parents dropped out of high school, compared to 13% of children from intact families. They also concluded that 33% of adolescent girls whose parents divorced became teen mothers, compared to 11% of girls from continuously married families. And McLanahan and her colleagues have found that 11% of boys who come from divorced families end up spending time in prison before the age of 32, compared to 5% of boys who come from intact homes.”
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-evolution-of-divorce
“In cases where children are exposed to high levels of conflict — like domestic violence or screaming matches between parents — they do seem to do better if their parents part.”
“men...feel mistreated by their ex-wives and by state courts that no longer take into account marital ‘fault’ when making determinations about child custody, child support, and the division of marital property.”
“Isabel Sawhill at the Brookings Institution has concluded that virtually all of the increase in child poverty in the United States since the 1970s can be attributed to family breakdown. Meanwhile, the dissolution of marriage in working-class and poor communities has also fueled the growth of government, as federal, state, and local governments spend more money on police, prisons, welfare, and court costs, trying to pick up the pieces of broken families. Economist Ben Scafidi recently found that the public costs of family breakdown exceed $112 billion a year.”
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-evolution-of-divorce
This is RollingStone. Might as well be NPR.
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