In her recent book Leila Miller has collected stories from the wreckage left behind in the wake of the first wholesale legal attack on the family. It was made in the early seventies when marriage was made into what lawyers call an "illusory contract" -- in other words, although marriage appears to be a meaningful contractual commitment between the parties, and goes through the formalities, it is actually no contract at all -- it can be breached at will.
See [i][c=#BF0000]"Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak"[/c][/i] by[b] Leila Miller[/b] [c=#BF0000]http://amzn.to/2yy93Pj[/c]
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@InOtterWords Marriage was not always thought of something a person got into, had a few kids, and just moved on when it felt right. That is an innovation of very recent contrivance.
Marriage was not invented so two "soul mates" could throw a big party and live in bliss. Marriage was for the purpose of creating and nurturing a family -- which is the fundamental unit of society.
