Divorce rights to unmarried couples??

There are a few ways to look at the new proposal in the UK to extend the divorce rights to unmarried couples.

One is to see it as an attempt by divorce industry to find new clientele, as one of the comments pointed out.

Second is to see it as an extension of efforts to protect or “empower” one party of the unmarried couple, and of course I am referring to a female party (why would government even bother about males?). Married women are now sufficiently protected under current divorce laws - they can now file for divorce, get the house, alimony, custody of children and child support from men - all of them by simply flinging the accusation of child abuse or domestic violence, no question asked and the government will guarantee she will get the as much as possible. But poor unmarried women still do not enjoy these splendid benefits courtesy of anti-male government.

Third is to see it as a continued effort by anti-family feminists to trivialize the status of marriage vis-a-vis other form of intimate arrangement or cohabitation, by bringing up the level of legal protection of these to that of formal traditional marriage. By extending same legal benefits to cohabitation, formal marriage will become more undistinguishable from couples living together and will become just one of any different types of cohabitation.



New 'divorce' rights for unmarried couples
Clare Dyer, legal editor
Tuesday October 31, 2006
The Guardian