my god.

[sev]

Two years ago, a woman separated from her husband, who was convicted and jailed for beating her. She filed for divorce last April. Now she's been told by a judge that she can't get divorce her abuser because she's pregnant.

what??

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[amai-unmei.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read that story ... ain't that something?

Even covenant marriages (fundie institutions though they are) allow for divorce due to abuse. This woman's abuse was well-documented and she followed the letter of the law, but the judge fears the kid being a "bastard"? Hello, DNA test anyone?

That story made me ill.

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

It's not even his kid.

The concern is that a kid without a parent will become a ward of the state.

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

So far we still have no-fault, one-party-may-end-it divorce in Oz. :::fingers crossed:::

This kind of thing used to happen here up until the sixties: I remember it.

Bleccch.