How To Cut America's Divorce Rate In Half

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My purpose in writing this book is to provide the evidence needed to spark reform of state No Fault Divorce laws which always grant a divorce requested by one spouse. The current law in 49 states allows one spouse to file for a divorce on grounds of "irreconcilable differences,” and obtain the divorce in every case. What’s wrong with that? In 80% of the cases their spouses believe the marriage is recon-cilable. The uniform granting of every divorce violates Constitutional guarantees of “due process of law.” How can there be due process if the spouse who wants to save the marriage always loses? That is un-just as well as unconstitutional.

If children are involved, it is tragic. Children need to be brought up by their own married mother and father. The best parents are married parents. “About 28% of our nation’s children – more than 20 million kids – will go to bed tonight without their father in the home. These children are much more likely to fail in school, to become pregnant as teenagers and to get in trouble with the law,” asserts Professor Brad Wilcox of the University of Virginia.

Therefore, this book proposes that if there is no major fault alleged, such as adultery or physical abuse, in cases of couples who have children – that no divorce would be granted unless both the mother and father agree. This would replace No Fault Divorce with Mutual Consent Divorce in cases involving children. Key American religious and legal leaders predict this single step could cut divorce rates in half in any state which passed the reform.