The decreases, one researcher explained, were “not just because abused women (and men) could more easily divorce their abusers, but also because potential abusers knew that they were more likely to be left.” Researchers who tracked the emergence of no-fault divorce laws state by state over that period found that reform led to dramatic drops in the rates of female suicide and domestic violence, as well as decreases in spousal homicide of women.
(And there are caveats: Mississippi and South Dakota still only allow no-fault divorce if both parties agree to dissolve the marriage, for example.) It took more than four decades to end fault-based divorce in America: California was the first state to eliminate it, in 1969 New York didn’t come around until 2010. It was a hard-fought journey to get there. “My then-wife decided that she didn’t want to be married anymore - and in the state of Texas, that is completely permitted.”Ĭrowder’s emphasis on “the state of Texas” makes it sound like the Lone Star State is an outlier, but all 50 states and the District of Columbia have no-fault divorce laws on the books - laws that allow either party to walk away from an unhappy marriage without having to prove abuse, infidelity, or other misconduct in court. “No, this was not my choice,” Crowder told his online audience last week. Steven Crowder, the right-wing podcaster, is getting a divorce.
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