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Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Friday, November 06, 2009 3:30 PM
I have managed to miss the Jon & Kate Plus Eight phenomenon, but Helen Alvare has a very nice reflection on what their sad story reveals about our divorce laws.
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No fault divorce was created in part so that the victims of domestic violence would have an opportunity to leave their marriages alive and without having to subject themselves to the horror of speaking publicly about the abuse they had suffered at a spouse’s hands. Just saying.
Speaking as a divorced person, this article touches on just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the way the court system allows the manipulation of one party by the other in so many ways. It may be law that one needs to pay child support, but it’s less and less likely that the custodial parent actually sees this money unless the other gives it willingly. No where but in America are you allowed to drive a BMW, live in a 400K+ dollar house and force your child to be on state health care because you won’t pay your legally enforced child support on time, if at all… Sad, sad reality here.
This isn’t a 100% accurate picture of what happened with Jon and Kate. Kate didn’t say she was done with Jon. She has said many times that she would like to try to work things out with him, and that she’s opposed to the idea of divorce. (I’m not trying to say that she’s an innocent victim, because clearly she’s made a lot of mistakes along the way that contributed to the breakdown of her marriage.)
If you wish to try and understand the destructive evil of divorce, you need only to pray for understanding then read the Book of Wisdom. Once you have done so, one can to begin to understand the lie that divorce is! Also, one can begin to understand why reformation sects are a break from our Lord’s true faith and how they have clearly walked away from the true teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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