Do you think legalizing divorce could only encourage it ???

The divorce rate here in the US, where it is legal, is very high. People indeed sometimes get divorced for minor quarrels. Part of it is the ease with which people get married. They don't see it as a lifetime commitment anymore but just as a thing to do and have fun. It doesn't matter that the husband/wife isn't perfect. Marriages are entered into lightly. If it doesn't work out, then it's so easy to get a divorce.... Nobody can measure irreconcilable differences. If one partner states that he/she can't put up with it anymore, that there is no solution that he/she would be satisfied with, then that's it. People are hardly willing to work things out. On the other hand, if there would be no option for divorce, couples who truely have started to hate each other would be stuck in a marriage. Same for abusive relationships. There should be a way out of marriage, but it shouldn't be as easy as it is here in the US. The way things are handled here is devaluing the concept and sanctity of marriage.

yeah i agree with you, i think divorce legalised does encourage it and plus some people who marry for what ever reason like money know they can just divorce after. also when people argue when divorce is mentioned they argue even more and then divorce each other.. but it hink if divorce was not legalised then people will try and sort things otu rather than taking the easy way out ..

In America, Divorce is legal and always on the rise, however, it is sad, I think that if it were not legal I am assuming that more people would wait on getting married...but that is just my perception. I do not really know. I know for me that I can not even imagine going through a divorce nor do I want to as I felt that my marriage should be taken extremely seriously and my husband feels the same way, if he felt or I felt we could just divorce at anytime, well I doubt we would have even made it this far (12 years)

Dear friend, I hope making divorce legal could help some who are bearing those cruelties and moreover without any adequate reasons divorce should not be given which may effect the children a moreover after a clear study of the case and the issues if it finds that it hard to go further I hope a divorce would be best to avoid further worse incidents. Moreover marriage should not also become for money or for just divorce for the sake of money. Hence divorce should be legalised provided certain limitation that is justifiable.

I don't know that it would encourage divorce, I am not for it and I think tha5 it would only be bad for the children but in some cases it might be the only recourse for an abusive relationship.

If I lived in a country that didn't allow divorce, I wouldn't get married in the first place. You never know how your marriage might turn out. Mine was bad. All I needed was the government telling me I couldn't divorce the jerk. People divorce when they cannot work things out. I personally don't think it should be illegal in any country.

I'm sorry, but since when is divorce ILLEGAL ?