Family
Sep. 5, 2023
Cultural Divorce, Part XII: Six billion ways to leave your marriage
We co-exist with about eight billion other individuals, nearly six billion of us are above the age of 15 and biologically capable of getting married. Giving only one choice to each qualified individual, there are about six billion ways to get married or unmarried. But this is not what is happening. Worldwide, you, me, and the rest of us are run by about 200 political entities that tell us when and how our marriages will be recognized and/or terminated.
Two politicians, one Russian, and another American, diametrically at opposing ends of the left-right spectrum of socio-politics, are responsible for introducing the no-fault divorce to the world: Vladimir Lenin in socialist Russia in 1918 and Ronald Regan in capitalist California in 1969. As a result, in the past fifty years, the dissolution of marriage in California has been ending the civil contract of marriage (F.C. 300) due to the decision of one spouse to end th...
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