Word: divorcee
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His first assertion, that a ban on divorce is desirable for it encourages couples "to work through their differences instead of splitting up" is a gross simplification of relations between men and women. Two people who buy a house and raise a child together have plenty of forces binding them...
Lat's second assertion, however, that all laws involve an imposition of morality, is to me the more pernicious of the two. Lat argues that preventing people from getting a divorce has the same characteristic of moral judgment as every other law.
A ban on divorce is a very different kind of law. Such a ban interferes with the desires of two consenting adults. The first kind of law effects a compromise between conflicting desires, while the second proscribes a behavior onto a group of people who want to be left alone...
This is not to say that society should never try to interfere when there is no conflict of rights--only that it should be extremely wary of such interference. Alan Dershowitz gives two cases when such laws are just: when the law is a small burden and would save many...
By the slimmest of margins, traditionally Roman Catholic Ireland lifted its constitutional ban on divorce. The measure was fought by the Catholic Bishops' Conference; the Pope and Mother Teresa issued appeals. It gives 75,000 legally separated men and women the right to remarry.