Doesn't seem to be very effective pressure, seeing as how so many people end up divorced.
Discussion
How about we just outlaw remarriage to anyone other than someone you're divorced from, and we all call it a day?
I've never seen anyone suggest this, but it's the painfully obvious solution. Most people get divorced so that they can remarry. If they couldn't remarry, then divorces would become something only for people who are just really miserable and want a clear separation of goods and whatnot.
Since divorce rates increase dramatically with each remarriage, and a surprising number of people are actually remarrying their own spouses, you could cut the effective divorce rate down to 10% or lower, with this one neat trick.
Nah. Scripture allows for (two) biblical grounds for divorce, and remarriage (only "in the Lord") after (biblical) divorce is permissible.
But if we're talking about State involvment in a religious institution then no thanks either way.
CCC 2384 Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law. It claims to break the contract, to which the spouses freely consented, to live with each other till death. Divorce does injury to the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign. Contracting a new union, even if it is recognized by civil law, adds to the gravity of the rupture: the remarried spouse is then in a situation of public and permanent adultery:
If a husband, separated from his wife, approaches another woman, he is an adulterer because he makes that woman commit adultery, and the woman who lives with him is an adulteress, because she has drawn another’s husband to herself.
CCC 2385 Divorce is immoral also because it introduces disorder into the family and into society. This disorder brings grave harm to the deserted spouse, to children traumatized by the separation of their parents and often torn between them, and because of its contagious effect which makes it truly a plague on society.
http://www.catholic-catechism.com/ccc_2380-2391.htm
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Protestant here. Scripture trumps the writings of men:
See [Matt. 19:3-9](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/mat/19/1/s_948004) (fornication/adultery) and [1 Cor. 7:15](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/1co/7/1/) (abandonment).
but we don't need to rehearse the reformation argument over sola scriptura here ✌️
😂 I had the same thought, but you offered me the perfect run-up to drop that, so I took it.
Its a one-way pressure: for women to spurn chaos and divorce their husbands
30% of USA divorces are initiated by men. That's 230k divorces in 2023.