But why would you want to do that? Illegitimacy (more accurately: women bearing children out of wedlock) is a statistically more-significant factor. Also, it has less excuse than divorce (which - in some cases - may be justified/necessary).
Regards,
I started off with that, because the post was about divorce.
As a matter of morality, sex out of wedlock and divorce are both mortally sinful. Thus, it’s hard to debate which is worse; they both garner a one-way trip to hell.
In terms of societal destruction..there are about 73MM kids in the US under 18.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr72/nvsr72-01.pdf
https://singlemotherguide.com/single-mother-statistics/
About 25% of children live in single-parent homes. Out of about 10 million single parent families with children under the age of 18, almost 80 percent were headed by single mothers. A third lived in poverty.
https://legaljobs.io/blog/children-of-divorce-statistics/
About 50% of all American children will witness the end of their parents’ marriage. With 73MM kids under 18, that would mean about 36MM kids.
From a pure numbers basis, it seems more kids are exposed to divorce vs single parent families. That doesn’t mean more devastation necessarily. But the numbers are higher.
In addition, a child with one parent, doesn’t know what they’re missing. A child exposed to divorce knows what they’re missing. Further, of these children, slightly fewer than half will then go on to see their parents’ second marriage break up, and one in every 10 children who have divorced parents will then see the break up of three or more parental marriages.
We may be debating if we’d prefer electrocution or hanging. Births out of wedlock and divorce both suck. Hopefully on that, we can agree.