At the Republican National Convention in 2016 - the last time the party platform was overhauled - delegates considered adding language declaring, “Children are made to be loved by both natural parents united in marriage. The Nebraska GOP has affirmed its belief that no-fault divorce should only be accessible to couples without children. It’s not just Texas: A similar proposal is presently being workshopped by the Republican Party of Louisiana. Should they decide to prioritize ending no-fault divorce this legislative session, they would likely have the votes they need to turn their platform into law. The Texas GOP retains an iron grip on both chambers of the state Legislature, and Republicans hold every single elected office statewide - from governor and lieutenant governor to the railroad commissioners and judges. The decreases, one researcher explained, were “not just because abused women (and men) could more easily divorce their abusers, but also because potential abusers knew that they were more likely to be left.” Researchers who tracked the emergence of no-fault divorce laws state by state over that period found that reform led to dramatic drops in the rates of female suicide and domestic violence, as well as decreases in spousal homicide of women. (And there are caveats: Mississippi and South Dakota still only allow no-fault divorce if both parties agree to dissolve the marriage, for example.) It took more than four decades to end fault-based divorce in America: California was the first state to eliminate it, in 1969 New York didn’t come around until 2010. It was a hard-fought journey to get there. “My then-wife decided that she didn’t want to be married anymore - and in the state of Texas, that is completely permitted.”Ĭrowder’s emphasis on “the state of Texas” makes it sound like the Lone Star State is an outlier, but all 50 states and the District of Columbia have no-fault divorce laws on the books - laws that allow either party to walk away from an unhappy marriage without having to prove abuse, infidelity, or other misconduct in court. “No, this was not my choice,” Crowder told his online audience last week. Steven Crowder, the right-wing podcaster, is getting a divorce.
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