Divorce is bad for family values; should be outlawed

Why do we let couples divorce? There's no question that children of divorced parents are worse off than children of married parents.

Actions have consequences. Once you get married, you should have to stick with that commitment for life. And the law should enforce that.

It doesn't matter what the parents want. At the end of the day marriage is about ensuring healthy families. The best way to ensure healthy families is to outlaw divorce.

 

Well it would stop the gay marriage agenda in its tracks.....

For the best interest of the institution of marriage, it should be much harder to divorce then it is currently. To make it against the law to divorce harms the institution and defeats the point....to encourage men and women into a union that creates healthy families.

 

I think you should you (*)(*)(*)(*) off back to nazi Germany

 

then ≠ than

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And 3link is right to point out that divorce tears families apart. People all too often get married, have kids together, then decide they aren't right for one another after all. Many also get married when they really never should, as staying with one mate for life doesn't suit their personalities.

 

marriage - so pase - just get rid of it

 

Even if it involves mental or physical abuse or to the point where one spouse commits suicide? I think if the laws were changed to what you propose, you'd see a vast increase of people living together out of wedlock and maybe have children to skirt the laws. That way they could part ways without and legal obligations.

 

And then, eventually, the control freaks who can't have that will step in to create laws to prevent that sort of thing.

 

Who is "WE" and what authority do you and this mythical WE have? Keep posting my friend.

 

Divorce is a dissovelment of a bad marriage. The bad marriage tore the family apart. Divorce is just the agreement of the married couple to end the contract...the marriage was gone long before the divorce.

Wanting to stop a divorce is child-like thinking...hoping to keep mommy and daddy together will bring their love back.

 

A bad marriage created the family in the first place. That breaks up the home and leaves kids without their parents, their attachment figures, both at home, teaching and setting good examples for them together.

So again, perhaps it should be harder to get married in the first place in hopes of preventing broken homes? Of course we can't reasonably expect people to be forced to stay together (though this has long been practiced historically under less liberated regimes), but there remains the problematic little fact that bad marriages and divorces often cause great upset to children who have to suffer a broken home.

 

I can see it now, gobs of drunken idiots with wife beater shirts on in a never ending fisticuff with their spouse.

Me? I am glad my drunken, womanizing and mean spirited dad left. I finally got to sleep at night. If you never laid awake all night long with a pillow crammed over your ears to drown out the fighting and arguing for months and months then trying to function at school the next day, then you have no idea. Couples are supposed to stay together "for the family" and subject kids like my little brother and I to that kind of psychotic behavior?

Puuleeezee . . ..

 

While I agree that divorce is overly used in North America, I don't think we should look to any Governing body to make laws for our own lack of judgement. I think the phrase: "Since sex got easier to get, love got harder to find." rings true in this "disposable" mentality society, imho.

 

there's no point to arguing against this idea, it will never be applied in the US

 

Unless we outlaw divorce, I don't see how we can argue that the purpose of marriage is to preserve families or justify leaving the gays out of it.

 

That's because, like on almost every other thread, your logic is absolutely pathetic.

 

Looks like someone's still butthurt over his beating in the Conservative Christians thread.

 

So in Your opinion two people that cannot stand each other should be forced to remain married and you believe that would make a good place to raise a child? Simply amazing that anyone could actually believe such nonsense. By the way not everyone that gets married has children and those that grow up in families where the parents stayed together for the sake of the child do not believe it is a good idea, I know this from having lived that life along with many other children I grew up with that knew it was a stupid idea.
I have a better idea, you run your marriage and life and leave others to do the same, strange that a Conservative would believe in laws that force people to live their private lives in a manner dictated by the Government, then at the same time preach for less government, there is a term for that...............

 

My larger point was that we can't really justify denying gay marriage on the basis that it does not promote "healthy" families when we let heterosexual couples divorce contrary to the wellbeing of the family.

You might argue it is a stretch. But it is no more of a stretch than arguing that permitting gay marriage means we have to permit incestuous marriage.

 

I'd question that. Sometimes people don't get divorced and end up driving themselves, each other and their kids completely insane.

 

Statistically speaking.

 

What about abusive marriages in which a spouse and/or the children are ridiculed & beaten? Is that healthy for a marriage such as that to continue?

If you said yes, you're no different from the religious fundamentalists who wish to entrap others in a perpetual tyranny by theocracy.
If you said no, who makes the decision as to whether or not a marriage is annulled? Is it a board of members, religious function, the mayor/governor, or a town vote? Now you have to deal with political alliances and quite possibility friendships making conflicts.

The most reasonable answer is to allow choice.

 

Beating? You didn't even respond to my last pwning of you. Here, how about you try.

http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...-bible-final-word-god-except-when-isnt-7.html

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Far better than for the children to be trapped in unhappy marriages............ Marriage isn't ownership unless you think like a caveman.

 

good thing I didn't have children in my first marraige then.... huh


i Love how you try to use the divorce analogy to prove your gay pride point, yet avoid the incest analogy like it's infested with Ebola

 

Be careful when you invite the government into something. They don't know when to leave.