For more than three decades, the American Christian Church has participated fully and completely in the institution of no-fault divorce. Sacred bonds formed before God — bonds that take two to form and two to live — can be severed at the whim of one. Even worse, they’re often severed even when Christian spouses are living fully immersed in the church culture. — David French
I remember once, years ago, a sister of mine commenting that the kids in our family would all have been better off if our parents had gotten divorced. That theirs was not a model marriage was indisputable, that they themselves might have been better off divorced was arguable, that they should never have married each other in the first place seemed obvious, but that we, their children, would have benefitted from the termination of their union — that I could not accept. During my extended bachelorhood, I had occasion to date several women from broken homes, and every one of them, lovely though they were, bore the psychic scars. My siblings and I may not have known the joy of having happy parents, but our sorrows were as nothing compared to the broken heart of a child whose mother or father simply isn’t there. — F.R. Duplantier