Sentences with phrase «fault divorce revolution»

California started the no - fault divorce revolution when it passed the first no - fault divorce statute in 1969.

Since the no - fault divorce revolution began in California in 1970 and spread to all 50 states, divorce decrees have generally mandated an equal division only of the couple's present assets and liabilities.

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They lack the social capital, and so will be more likely to become victims of the new regime of legal drugs, just as they've become victims of no fault divorce and the sexual revolution more broadly.

When the divorce revolution took off with the advent of no - fault divorce in the 1960s, experts predicted that marriages overall would be happier because all the unhappy people would get divorced.

The sexual revolution and the impermanence wrought by no - fault divorce have produced unprecedented loneliness and the phenomenon of sad, bar - crawling post-divorcee moms.

On another level, the revolution in no - fault divorce law which has been of no help to the modem American family has been legitimated by the individualist rights - discourse of modernity, which Berger seems to believe is an unqualified good.