There were times when I was growing up when I wished that my parents would get divorced (but they stayed together). I see great potential for abusive situations if Oklahoma adopt this legislation.

To some extent, it hardly matters. Divorce, like everything else, is hardest on those who make little money. I know one couple right now who can barely stand each other, but they don't make enough money for two separate dwellings, and I know it has a detrimental effect on the children. Those people don't need a law to keep them from divorcing.

I got divorced in OK in 1979. My husband and I had no children, had been married for 8 years, and he wanted to marry someone else. We had a reasonable divorce--no screaming, no fighting--and we used the same attorney. I think OK is taking a step back from where they once were. I agree that sometimes people divorce in haste but making them stay together for the sake of the children--not such a good idea.

Divorce was at one time illegal in Ireland, and it didn't keep couples from separating, but still staying legally married. I say it's none of the government's business.

I got "officially separated" at the end of December 1999, and divorced in March 2001. The way my ex- husband has behaved since that time has been abominable.. Trust me, you don't need a piece of paper saying you're divorced to keep people from taking out their problems on their families. Maybe it would be better to have people have to take classes and get re-licensed every so often. Then the committed people would stay in and the rest would have to get some help.

America’s divorce rate is the world’s highest because the law permits one partner to unilaterally end a marriage. Marriages are terminated by one person against the will of the other spouse in 80% of cases.

Letters from Children of Divorce

Wesley:
To the children of divorce, if one of your parents leaves, make them regret it. Make them realize that they destroyed a family. Children of divorce go to as much school as you can, and get a good job, don’t let their evil plan destroy you. Then one day when the parent who left you, gets old and now needs you, show them the same care as they showed your family.

Annie:
25 years ago when I was 14, my parents divorced. My younger brother is now dead from a heroin overdose, after the pain my mother caused by leaving us, for her boyfriend. My mother is old, retired, and alone and now needs my help. I am using this opportunity, to stay away from her, to return the favor for all the pain and torment.

James:
Do parents even comprehend the massive, unfathomable amount of pain, suffering, agony and devastation that their selfish divorces, adulterous affairs & remarriages cause? Do they? I hope the mothers and fathers that cause this and do this to their kids go to hell like the Bible says about adulterers.

Brett:
I will never accept that parents are just human and make "mistakes," divorce is not a mistake, it is a sin. They say it's not good to stay in a bad marriage, get a life, marriage it not about being happy. Divorce is wrong, family-destroying and evil.

John:
I don't think parents even care about how this affects their children because my own mom chose her boyfriend over my dad and my brothers and I. We suffered tremendously and now because of my mom’s example, both of my grandparents are divorced and most of my aunts and uncles are in the middle of their own divorces. This is out of control, when will it stop?

http://www.cadz.net/tony.html

Justin:
My father left the family and no one said anything to him.

Studies on children of divorce show much higher rates of suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, depression, mental illness, criminality, teenage pregnancy, abortion, school failure, social withdrawal, joblessness, poverty, etc. Divorce is a crime against humanity! To the enablers of divorce; judges, lawyers, co-workers, friends, and relatives please kill yourselves.

Anyone who tries to rationalize their divorce is insane. They are lying and self-centered. Children are destroyed after a divorce. As a degenerate, decadent society, we no longer punish, ostracize, or even criticize people who divorce! Children of divorce, don’t let your parents get away with it.

By allowing people to divorce, kid’s lives are ruined. Do not buy into all the disgusting "tolerance" business, universities, schools, and even churches shove down your throats. Don’t tolerate it, don’t accept it, divorce needs to be against the law. Divorce is one of the greatest unpunished crimes of our age.

As an atheist, nothing gets to me more than “Christians” who say nothing to someone who is planning to leave their family. It is plainly written in the Bible that divorce is forbidden and anyone who remarries is just fooling themselves if they think God recognizes it as a marriage when He calls it adultery, even I know that.

Christianity used to forbid immoral behavior, now it accepts it?

When Christians do not follow Jesus’ teachings, they are not Christians! Will somebody tell them? They are atheists, just like me. Will somebody speak up? Divorce is against God’s law, why isn’t it against our law?

http://www.cadz.net/tony.html

America’s divorce rate is the world’s highest because the law permits one partner to unilaterally end a marriage. Marriages are terminated by one person against the will of the other spouse in 80% of cases.

More Letters from Children of Divorce:

"25 years ago when I was 14, my parents divorced. My younger brother is now dead from a heroin overdose, after the pain my mother caused by leaving us, for her boyfriend. My mother is old, retired, and alone and now needs my help. I am using this opportunity, to stay away from her, to return the favor for all the pain and torment.”
---Annie

“Do parents even comprehend the massive, unfathomable amount of pain, suffering, agony and devastation that their selfish divorces, adulterous affairs & remarriages cause? Do they? I hope the mothers and fathers that cause this and do this to their kids go to hell like the Bible says about adulterers.”
---James

“I will never accept that parents are just human and make "mistakes," divorce is not a mistake, it is a sin. They say it's not good to stay in a bad marriage, get a life, marriage it not about being happy. Divorce is wrong, family-destroying and evil. “
---Brett

" I don't think parents even care about how this affects their children because my own mom chose her boyfriend over my dad and my brothers and I. We suffered tremendously and now because of my mom’s example, both of my grandparents are divorced and most of my aunts and uncles are in the middle of their own divorces. This is out of control, when will it stop?”
---John

http://www.cadz.net/tony.html

Thanks so much Erin for posting this here. I agree that more needs to be done to outlaw divorce.

Except in cases of adultry divorce should be illegal. Adultry is the worse thing someone can do to their spouse.

I am a Christian and I am also appalled that some who call themselves Christian are so accepting of divorce.