Divorce and question marks — 2
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Question 4: Would it be unrealistic to ask the divorce proponents how many divorces can one have, how many homes can one break, how many children can one leave behind?
The question really is how many marriages may one enter into and how many divorces may one thereafter obtain.
A spouse guilty of any of the divorce grounds does not have the best credentials to enter into another marriage. This is especially true on the ground of adverse personality constitution or ingrained character flaw which is certainly not cured by all absolute divorce grants.
The spouse-victim on the other hand who unforgivingly and perhaps even vindictively acted against the other with the full force of the law in order to have an absolute divorce, may not claim either excellent personal credentials for a remarriage. The truth is that when seriously traumatized by an errant and erratic former spouse, the said spouse-victim becomes sadly unprepared for another marriage. And considering that another and another marriage and another and another divorce are all possible, neither the guilty nor the victim spouse is helped by such indefinite possibilities..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110609com5.html
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