Legal Quote by Stephanie Coontz

Unilateral divorce has decreased the bargaining power of the person who wants the marriage to last and has not engaged in behavior that meets…

— Stephanie Coontz

Some people may long for an era when divorce was still hard to come by. The spread of no-fault divorce has reduced the bargaining…

— Stephanie Coontz

Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal…

— Suzanne Gordon

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

— Alana Stewart

“When a divorce is initiated, regardless of who files with the court, blamers particularly feel threatened. Many cannot handle seeming in any way responsible…

— Randi Kreger

Divorce is marital welfare.It’s just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn’t do enough research before they got married.

— Stephen Colbert

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

— Spencer W. Kimball

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation,…

— Joyce Brothers

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve…

— Denis Diderot

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

— Gene Simmons

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling…

— Edward Gibbon

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have…

— Timothy Murphy