NY divorce law: unfair - and just?

Clancy writes "In this editorial, Susan Cheever makes some outlandish assertions. She obviously did no homework whatsoever but instead chose to get her statistics right out of her a--."

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"On the one hand, it's a shame to spend resources keeping people together who don't want to be together. On the other hand, making divorce difficult protects those who don't want divorce, and this often includes the wife and children of the marriage.

According to what I've read, women overwhelmingly initiate divorce proceedings. The following paragraph made me wonder if I was in one of those evil parallel universes where everything is backward.

There's a difference between justice and fairness. 'This law is still the last protection of the abandoned wife,' says one experienced lawyer. The law as it is gives the rejected spouse the power to say no. The world isn't fair, and it is particularly unfair to women who have compromised their earning power to raise their children. As long as women make less money and do most of the domestic work, and as long as women still lose their sexual power at an age when men come into theirs, the world will be unfair.

Let's see. If a woman loses her sexual power at an age when the man is coming into his, that must mean the woman is about 30 years older than her husband. Maybe it's just me but I think this column has more holes in it than Bonnie and Clyde's last set of clothes."

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