Parliamentary Protests At The Incremental Lowering Of The Barriers To Divorce Over The Last 150 Years

A wonderfully bracing romp through the history of objections to divorce, as retold by Professor Chris Barton.  Lena Jeger MP in 1968:

‘I take issue with the hon. and learned Member for Oldham, West… He kept referring to the totally innocent, and the totally guilty party. The whole difficulty about legislating in this sphere of sensitive and intimate human relationships is that it is not a question of total guilt or total innocence. Marriage is not like that’…

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