No-fault divorce

Marriage Savers has a new anti-divorce Web site, and Kathryn Joyce doesn't like it, not one bit. Her criticism of this particular critique of no-fault divorce is certainly valid: it's fairly indifferent to the problem of domestic violence; it smells of the most reactionary sort of "fathers' rights" rhetoric; it's pretty paternalistic.

What Joyce DOESN'T do is to offer an actual defense of no-fault divorce along w/ her denouncement of one particular group of its denouncers. Here's a good, hard-to-pin-down-politically piece from a couple years ago that deals with some of the anxieties of faith-based parents (free reg. required). Among other things, it criticizes no-fault divorce laws, but from the careful center rather than the reactionary right. While many on the left no doubt have a problem w/ this argument, too, it doesn't present quite the easy target that Marriage Savers does.