The statement of Michael Benjamin, D-Bronx:
Assembly Member Benjamin - Statement Against No-Fault Divorce
I am opposed to no-fault divorce because it would harm most women in divorce proceedings. According to the National Marriage Project at Rutger’s University, a woman’s standard of living drops by an average of 27% and a man’s increases by 10% following a divorce.
In addition to the economic disadvantages imposed by this bill, I am also against no-fault divorce because it would define marriage as something temporary and trivial. Under the provisions of the law, marriage would essentially be defined as a contract that could be broken at any time, for any reason.
Due to the economic disadvantage that women face, combined with my unwillingness to break down the blessed institution of marriage, I can not in good conscience vote for no-fault divorce.
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Thank-you first of all for standing up for the blessed institution of marriage. Marriage is above all sacred in the eyes of God! Secondly, thank-you so much for being willing to speak out on the behalf of women. You have got to be the only sensible man in office in this country today. Women find it much harder to survive financially after a divorce than a man. I personally know of a lady whose husband got the house, the cars and of course some bimbo, while the only job she has been able to find is a cross walk guard during the school year. Not that that's a bad job, it just doesn't pay well. I feel so bad for her. Once again, thank-you for standing up for women and for marriage itself.
Hang on--don't we already have no fault divorce?
It's hard to believe the statistics about changes of living standards following divorce, given that it is normally the woman who gets the house, loads of money she didn't earn and child support (a.k.a. Vicky Pollard money). If the statistics are true, they are probably that way because the man has cut his ties with a useless wife who has been holding him back.
I'm not opposed to no-fault divorce. It would stop the ridiculous nonsense of people making false accusations of impropriety to gain a quickie divorce, when they should really be admitting that they are filing for divorce because they don't respect the sanctity of marriage.
Finally a politician who makes sense and is willing to do what's not popular in our culture today. That is, stand up for marraige and the reasons are good.
America enemies will easily destroy this blessed nation once the American families will be destroyed by the anti-marriage politics.