Showing posts with label no fault divorce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label no fault divorce. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Conservative US lawmakers are pushing for an end to no-fault divorce

But Willett's argument relies on the idea that "women are either property or that somehow men's liberty is restrained by not allowing them to stay in a marriage with someone who does not want to be married", said Wehle, who also wrote about it in the Atlantic. "I disagree with the idea that women are somehow property interests of their husbands. That is an arcane relic of law that has no place in modern society."…

Friday, June 14, 2024

The Christian right is coming for divorce next

Divorce is extremely common — more than 670,000 American couples split in 2022 alone. Any rollback to no-fault divorce would likely be politically unpopular, even in red states (some of which have higher divorce rates than the national average). 

But perhaps emboldened by their victory in overturning Roe v. Wade, social conservatives have gone after other popular targets in recent months, from birth control to IVF. The drive to increase restrictions on divorce is part of the same movement, Zug said — an effort to re-entrench "conservative family values," incentivize heterosexual marriage and childbearing, and disempower women. "They are all connected," Zug said...







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