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NO to Covenant Marriage |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT DIVORCE LAW? |
| Author: Joe Cook |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 4,756 Words, 31,013 Characters |
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The original bill provided for divorce on only two grounds: adultery and abandonment, which are biblical in origin. After a number of amendments (over Perkins' objections) by fellow legislators to expand the grounds of proof to include felony conviction and sentence to prison or death, physical or sexual abuse of spouse or child, and "habitual intemperance," the bill wound its way through the legislative process. It passed with an overwhelming majority in both chambers on June 24, 1997.
Sponsoring lawmakers, thirty on the House side and three in the Senate, hyped the legislation as a way to strengthen the institution of marriage and the family by lowering Louisiana's divorce rate, already one of the lowest in the country. Proponents claimed (without any controlled studies of harm done t...
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...ivorce over the past three decades by Nicholas Wolfinger, Department of Sociology, UCLA, "Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce." Paper presented at the 1996 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, in New York.
FOOTNOTE: 5.Terry Carter, "A Stealth Anti-Divorce Weapon," ABA Journal (September 1997), 28.
FOOTNOTE: 6.Carter, "Stealth," ABA Journal, 28.
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