American Voices

Is Divorce Too Easy?

August 26, 1997 | ISSUE 32•04

With the divorce rate continuing to soar, some family advocates are calling for legislation making it more difficult to dissolve a marriage. What do you think about toughening divorce laws?

  • Can't these fat-cat legislators in Washington figure out some way to make two people love each other?

    Kenny Cooper
    Construction Worker

  • With divorces so easy to obtain, what kind of message are we sending our children—that it's okay to not like being unhappy?

    Adrian Pulsipher
    Podiatrist

  • Before a couple gets a divorce, the least they can do is have one last baby to try to save the marriage.

    Pamela Hyland
    Systems Analyst

  • Our divorce laws need to protect the real victims in all of this: the people who buy expensive wedding gifts for doomed couples. That breadmaker for the Silvermans cost me $250.

    Theodore Kolb
    Roofer

  • Friend, I've been through it. And law or no law, nothing is more heartbreaking than losing that 60 percent higher tax deduction for filing jointly.

    Jon Loftus
    Math Teacher

  • You mean people can still get married? That bastard lied to me!

    Irene Abrams
    Pharmacist

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