Divorce Reform Argumentative Essay
Wil Ross
Heather Murksi
En 106 First Year Writing Seminar II
September 24 2013
Divorce Reform: Should we make it harder to get Divorced?
In marriages where the partners are, even after thoughtful reconsideration and counsel, estranged beyond reconciliation, we recognize divorce and the right of divorced persons to remarry, and express our concern for the needs of the children of such unions. To this end we encourage an active, accepting, and enabling commitment of the Church and our society to minister to the needs of divorced persons.
Evolution of Divorce Wilcox
The sanctimonies act of marriage is no longer viewed as a sacred bond between husband and wife. So many people will argue this fact since the early 1970’s. Many Americans …show more content…
She could not even vote. Today, increasing numbers of married woman are employed, even in the professions. In addition, they have long been accorded full civil rights. Their approaching equality with the male should be reflected in the law governing marriage dissolution and in the decisions of courts with respect to matters incident to dissolution” (Galston). In other words the arguments for us to go back to fault based divorce laws, because one spouse may suffer a decline in their standard of living doesn’t justify the answer for divorce reform. For the simple reason that woman have entered the workforce as well as men, instead of women receiving the majority of their property during divorce it is typically split down the middle fairly in most cases. Galston points out that “the now vanished fault system afforded some protection for women who chose (in economic terms) to specialize in household responsibilities. Protection was necessary because the cost of this decision is on average a permanent reduction of earnings potential in the paid workforce. The adoption of no-fault divorce has had two predictable effects. Older women caught in the transition, with no
Heather Murksi
En 106 First Year Writing Seminar II
September 24 2013
Divorce Reform: Should we make it harder to get Divorced?
In marriages where the partners are, even after thoughtful reconsideration and counsel, estranged beyond reconciliation, we recognize divorce and the right of divorced persons to remarry, and express our concern for the needs of the children of such unions. To this end we encourage an active, accepting, and enabling commitment of the Church and our society to minister to the needs of divorced persons.
Evolution of Divorce Wilcox
The sanctimonies act of marriage is no longer viewed as a sacred bond between husband and wife. So many people will argue this fact since the early 1970’s. Many Americans …show more content…
She could not even vote. Today, increasing numbers of married woman are employed, even in the professions. In addition, they have long been accorded full civil rights. Their approaching equality with the male should be reflected in the law governing marriage dissolution and in the decisions of courts with respect to matters incident to dissolution” (Galston). In other words the arguments for us to go back to fault based divorce laws, because one spouse may suffer a decline in their standard of living doesn’t justify the answer for divorce reform. For the simple reason that woman have entered the workforce as well as men, instead of women receiving the majority of their property during divorce it is typically split down the middle fairly in most cases. Galston points out that “the now vanished fault system afforded some protection for women who chose (in economic terms) to specialize in household responsibilities. Protection was necessary because the cost of this decision is on average a permanent reduction of earnings potential in the paid workforce. The adoption of no-fault divorce has had two predictable effects. Older women caught in the transition, with no