Article on divorce by Orson Scott Card
19/12/05 15:27 Filed in: Steven Says
Quoted from
here. This is a short excerpt of a much longer
must read article.
It's everybody's business. Marriage is a contract, not just between the couple, but between the couple, society at large, and any children they might bear or adopt. And divorce is a disruption, not just of the marriage, but of the children's home and of the contract with society at large.
There is no no-fault divorce, whatever the law says, and no such thing as no-damage divorce, either. Temporary marriage is not doing the job that marriage is needed for in the first place -- especially where children are involved.
It's everybody's business. Marriage is a contract, not just between the couple, but between the couple, society at large, and any children they might bear or adopt. And divorce is a disruption, not just of the marriage, but of the children's home and of the contract with society at large.
There is no no-fault divorce, whatever the law says, and no such thing as no-damage divorce, either. Temporary marriage is not doing the job that marriage is needed for in the first place -- especially where children are involved.
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