Arfin, Everyone should have the right to leave a relationship that isn't working. But there's a growing Republican movement to restrict women's ability to obtain divorces. And naturally, Trump's pick for his vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, is among the prominent voices. Until 1960s, people — primarily women — had an extremely difficult time obtaining divorces. In every single state, individuals would need to prove to a judge that someone was "to blame" for the relationship ending — usually needing to prove adultery, with a witness to help. The task was so challenging that women often felt trapped, forced to stay in bad marriages.
But in 1969, California became the first state to allow "no-fault" divorces, which simplified this arduous process. After the passage of no-fault divorces, rates of suicide, intimate partner violence, and intimate partner homicide dropped dramatically - saving countless women's lives, and even those of their children, too.
Yet not only do some Republican men want to glamorize the idea of banning no-fault divorces — others have gone even further. For example, J.D. Vance has suggested that all divorces, for any reason, are bad. He praised his own grandparents for staying in a violent, chaotic marriage and never divorcing. During a speech, he claimed that "one of the great tricks...the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace" was the idea that people could leave a marriage if they're unhappy — or if they're subjected to violence.
No-fault divorces are a life-saver that protect women as well as children.We must keep this option available. Sign the petition to demand that Congress pass a federal law enshrining the right to no-fault divorces! |
