Divorce on demand law eyed in Britain while US divorce rates rise and fall

While lawmakers in Great Britian pushed for a “no-fault” divorce law in 1996, The New York Times reported on its cover page, April 8 Sunday edition, that the bill didn’t pass amid worries that it would “make divorce too easy.” However, things are changing now in 2012, with “fault-finding Britain’s believing there’s new cause to push for no-fault divorce like laws in America. For instance, The New York Times reported how a “woman sued for divorce because her husband insisted she dress in a Klingon costume and speak to him in Klingon.” Then, there’s another man in England who wants a divorce after he told a divorce lawyer that “his wife had maliciously and repeadtedly served him his least favorite dish, tuna casserole. “It’s insane,” exlained British divorce lawyer Vanessa Lloyd Platt during an interview for The New York Times, asserting: “These things should not have any part in the procedure” for divorce; but the reported stating “they come up all the time in Britain, which unlike every state in America does not have a no-fault divorce law.” At the same time, the recently released U.S. Cenus analysis – based on 2009 data from the American Community Survey – stated a sample of 3 million U.S. households found “roughly 1.1 million children, or 1.5 percent of all U.S. children, lived in 2009 in the home of a parent who divorced in the previous year.”