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As far as all this is concerned my thought is not that divorce being easy is the answer, rather that it should be harder for people to get married in the first place.

I don't mean that in a legal sense but rather through education. Far to much crap in society that encourages people to go through the whole rigmarole just so they can pop out ever more children and/or satisfy a family's urge for it's members to do the "right thing".

More education in birth control could also see a reduction in what were once called shotgun weddings. Hopefully such a programme would also see a reduction in unwanted pregnancies. For the life of me I cannot figure out how anyone gets pregnant these days unless it is planned.

Making it harder for people in failed relationships to get a divorce is to me a silly idea. Physical and mental abuse within a bad marriage is the likely result of forcing two people who dislike each other to continue to live together.

Speaking personally as someone from a "broken home" I'm quite content with my lot. My life has almost certainly been better for not having my father around even though growing up in the 50s in a single parent household was not the easiest of existences.