WRONG! No fault divorce is the root of most of these evils.
Marriage is meant to be forever. As such divorce should only be granted when adultery can be proven or when physical abuse can be proven to a jury. The member guilty of abuse or adultery loses everything. The children, home, assets and support go to the true spouse.
If we raise the penalty for abuse or adultery to a exceedingly painful level, then people will work to maintain their marriages rather than deserting them.
Right now marriage is a racket for the enrichment of evil women and divorce lawyers. This insanity must end.
I do agree that marriage should be greatly encouraged but divorce must be just as greatly discouraged.
God Save America (Please)
Most eloquently stated, John O.
You may have inadvertently hit a nail on the head here. Everyone always wants to air that statistic about how women are the ones who do the files but generally neglect to mention that in quite a few cases, the women file because the man started (shall we say) wandering after children come along. There are, I know, women who break the marriage vows but, from what I've seen, it's usually the men. Just FWIW.
There are a number of different forms of "no-fault" divorce. The ones which require both parties to agree that there are irreconcilable differences but no particular wrongdoing and which allow either party to contest either statement I don't have a major problem with. The ones that allow one party to unilaterally dissolve a marriage without declaration of "fault" are just plain evil. IMHO, any partner who seeks to unilaterally dissolve a marriage without demonstrating specific wrongdoing on the part of the other should be deemed entirely at fault for the breakup and thus get the bare minimum from any resulting divorce settlement. To make a 50% division of assets when one partner is seeking to preserve the relationship and the other to dissolve it is just plain wrong.