We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
Neo-neocon, who is a rara avis - a conservative psychotherapist - has a fine piece on marriage (and divorce), titled Getting Married: What's in it for me?
No expert in the field but oft left for dead in the street, in Response to Part 1;
The fault divorce much better served the individuals, plaintiff and respondent, me thinks, than the disasters foisted upon the innocent with the BEST interests of the children in the new law, currently.
In fact, the new law leaves none innocent, especially the children.
Who, me thinks, become those monsters, wards of the state, who stumble about trying to miss the bullet from the sovereign (a-constitutional) court and conjuring a means to retrograde.
Hopefully, such cohorts of social disasters stumble to enlightenement before they rightfully arm.
Sad that, individual rights distained as the cause of a dysfunctional culture, have been circumvented by the interests of the child aka the interests of the aberrant state.
That state is the dysfunction activated by persons hellbent on stealing the rights of their children before the latter know what one is.
Majority of divorcees-ers might well take heed to Joan B. Kelly, settle the important issues of access and custody without reliance upon adversarial processes.