Jan Koekepan@sim The usual argument put forward is that the interests of the children, if any, are paramount. This immediately leads to a sort of weird dynamic in which the parties to a contract are not judged by their conduct with respect to the contract. The incentives are all wrong. If you want marriage to be justifiable for men, there has to be some kind of grounds for honourably washing their hands of a shit situation.
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