It's Debatable: Where's the fault in no-fault divorce?
[font color=green]The following article was in the online edition of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. The debate is between Dr. Donald May, retired ophthalmologist, failed congressional candidate and author of the Mr. Conservative blog and Dr. Arnold Loewy, professor of law at Texas Tech University. I am posting the article because Dr. May digresses off the topic which is either pitiful or hilarious depending upon your reaction to his comments.[/font]
Arnold: No-fault divorce best for entire family
The topic of this debate is no-fault divorce. Given the alternatives, I favor it. As I see it, the alternatives are no divorce at all, or divorce predicated on fault. Because I believe both of these alternatives are unacceptable, no-fault divorce seems like the only acceptable alternative.
It is hard to make a case for no divorce at all. Surely we don’t want an abused spouse to have only the choice of murder or abuse tolerance.
We want her to be able to get out of the horrible situation in which she finds herself. So that leaves us with the option of divorce based on fault or no-fault.
Of course, we could take care of that case with a divorce predicated on fault. So what is wrong with that? Well it compels looking for and assessing blame in court. And this frequently is not a good thing, specially if children are involved.
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Donald: Even Freidan said no-fault was a mistake
Professor Loewy makes a convincing argument, but I disagree with him that no-fault divorce has been good for our society. No-fault divorce has been of great harm to men, women, and children, which is the best reason it should no longer be legal.
Our society began its moral decline in 1947 with the United States Supreme Court decision in Everson vs. Board of Education justifying the removal of moral law (Ten Commandments) and the recognition of God as our highest authority (prayer) from our schools and government. The moral decline accelerated with President Johnson and his Great Society programs, which were intended to buy votes for generations from those the federal government managed to keep in poverty. The Great Society programs rewarded non-productivity (unemployment) and subsidized single parent matriarchal families with husbands effectively excluded from the household.
Feminists, including Betty Friedan, fought hard for no-fault divorce as an imagined means of freeing women from tyranny in a male-dominated society. California was the first state to fall to the siren call of no-fault divorce in 1969. The divorce rates skyrocketed as one state after another implemented no-fault divorce.
The entire debate is at http://lubbockonline.com/editorials/2015-04-18/its-debatable-wheres-fault-no-fault#.VTROU5Py3SI . My personal reaction to it is 
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indeed.
As someone who grew up in a DV household and subsequently decided to remain celibate because I didn't want to go through or risk inflicting that shit again, I can safely tell Donald to go fuck himself.
