> A
> better, more effective way is to create an institutional framework to
> that end, similar to that found in business, such as replacing the
> vague
> "vows" with a contract that outlines specific rights and obligations of
> each, party, means of enforcement, penalties for non-compliance, and
> escrow account set aside to compensate the injured party for the other
> party's noncompliance, the institution of public advocate who can
> petition the annulment or dissolution of marriages that do not meet
> certain legally established standards (even against the involved
> parties' will).
This won't work if what's really required by children is "love" that when shared increases in amount, i.e. the love of "true minds."
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Ted