I remember that there was once this thing called a legal separation, where you were still married, but not living together. It was tried before divorces, and it better reflected the reality of marriage, at least from my Catholic perspective. Divorce is merely a legal separation, you are not then unmarried, you are not then able to marry again. You do not hear about legal separation any more, just divorce. Why is that? The reason I ask is that in Oregon, have passed a bill to allow for divorce when the woman is pregnant. Apparently this was needed to protect women in abusive relationships. One would think that there would be other ways short of divorce to do that, no? Details are here.
