[Responsibility2nd]

Worth repeating in bold font....

Gassman said. “I sincerely believe that the family is the foundation of this nation and this nation will go the direction of our families. If our families break up, so will this nation.”

[Fawn]

"Parents who have lived separately for at least two years could use that as a “fault” for a divorce, however."

Then what's the sense...this is what they will do.

[Responsibility2nd]

Karl Schilling of the Iowa Organization for Victim Assistance said no-fault divorce was a carefully crafted solution to deal with those kind of problems.

“I think if you really want to lessen the divorce rate, there’s better things the legislature can do, such as work against poverty, increase jobs,” Schilling said.

 

Idiot. How many thousands of studies - since No Fault was enacted - do you need to see before you know that NFD INCREASES poverty for parents and for their children?

[OKRA2012]

Sounds like governmental micromanagement of people’s lives.

[KC_Lion]

Communist Goal 40: Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

Communist Goals 1963

[gdani]

Government screws up much/almost all of what it controls.

Get government out of the marriage business.

[chesley]

How about this? Instead of one parent being able to have a divorce regardless of the other parent's wishes, both parties have to agree to the divorce?

Not just the financial settlement and property division. Not just custody. Both parents would have to agree<> to the divorce itself.

That's "no-fault".

[longfellowsmuse]

the family is the foundation of not only this nation but all of civilization. Legislation will not fix our families...only the reinstitution of Judeo-Christian values can bring back the nuclear family which has been purposefully and systematically attacked and brought close to destruction.

If our nation will turn back to God the health of America’s families will be restored. It is the only way.

[ksen]

So much for a belief in small government.

[RIghtwardHo]

Utter idiocy. The sate is going to FORCE people to stay married????? Insanity.

Someone wrote, and I agree, this is a Church issue. NOT Government issue.

[Jim Noble]

The end of “traditional marriage” was the introduction of unilateral breach of contract with no recourse (a/k/a no-fault divorce).

No fault divorce (and the decriminalization of adultery) has done more to destroy the institution than anything a few homosexuals can cook up.

And the horrified reaction to this proposal by “conservatives” simply shows how far gone traditional marriage really is.

[discostu]

The problem with this kind of thinking is that it puts the onus on the wrong end of the equation. The problem has never been no fault divorces, some people just shouldn’t be together; the problem is ill-considered marriages, people who shouldn’t be together getting married. People get married too quick without knowing anything about themselves or the person they’re marrying, forcing them to stay together “for the kids” isn’t going to fix anything. Growing up in a war zone household isn’t any better on kids than a single parent household. Let people who’ve learned to hate each other stop being married.

[NEMDF]

But interesting that Iowa DOES ALLOW GAY MARRIAGES and considers them to be legal.

[allmendream]

MORE GOVERNMENT CONTROL LAWS AND REGULATIONS!!! It is for the children!