Peter Dazeley via Getty Images A growing list of conservatives have spoken out against no-fault divorce. Ben Carson made headlines earlier this month upon the release of his new book, which calls for lawmakers to put a stop to no-fault divorce in the U.S.
“For the sake of families, we should enact legislation to remove or radically reduce incidences of no-fault divorce,” the former cabinet member for Donald Trump writes in “The Perilous Fight: Overcoming Our Culture’s War on the American Family,” which hit shelves on May 14. Advertisement “The reason this matters is that no-fault divorce legally allows marriages to end much more quickly than in previous decades,” he continues. “When there are relatively few legal or financial consequences connected with divorce, it’s natural for people to gravitate toward that option when their marriage hits a rough patch.
What those people often don’t consider, however, is the harm — both present and future — inflicted on their children once a divorce is finalized.” Carson is the latest in a growing list of conservative politicians who have spoken out against no-fault divorce. Advertisement House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.
) said in a 2016 sermon that no-fault divorce laws were among the cultural shifts that gave rise to “a completely amoral society” in which young people feel compelled to “go into their schoolhouse and open fire on their classmates.” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.
) decried the rise of no-fault div.
