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Article: Why is marriage precious?
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- Catholic Insight
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- July 1, 2006
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It can be convincingly argued that marriage has been virtually abolished in the western world with the introduction of no-fault divorce, which on closer inspection is really nothing other than "unilateral divorce on demand." The state no longer demands that couples honour their permanent legal commitments. It no longer recognizes that nuptial vows bring into being something that, once established, does not depend on the couple in order to continue to be. As American writer Maggie Gallagher points out, thanks to no-fault divorce, marriage has been demoted from "a binding relation into something best described as cohabitation with insurance benefits."
Despite this, ...