Mind blowing to me that people who always run on the campaign promises of freedom and personal liberty think the government should force you to stay married
Next up is Reagan's destruction of marriage as an institution
Before Reagan, every state in America required a showing of fault to get a divorce. That way, marriage remained sacrosanct, and children were never in homes that split up without reason, shielding them
Then, in 1969, as governor, Reagan passed America's first ever no-fault divorce law. With that, spouses could obtain a divorce without fault, as the name implies, and divorce skyrocketed
Thanks to that, marriage has lost its sacrosanct nature and now 40% of marriages end in divorce, often without fault. That sets kids up for lives without parents, and discourages young people, particularly young men, from marriage because they worry they'll get screwed over in the divorce courts, as millions upon millions of American men have
Now marriage rates have dropped like a rock, largely because of mutual distrust and bad experience, and marriage is far from what it once was
Thanks, Reagan!