How no fault divorce helped women in the US

This finding about the effects of no fault divorce says so much about how laws can encourage or discourage the worst in men. Even without assault on women being specifically institutionalized, laws have an enormous impact.

A 2004 study by Stanford Business School discovered fascinating facts about how no-fault divorce impacted women:

• 20% reduction in female suicide after 20 years (none for men)
• 33% reduction in domestic violence against women (after a rise in other states vs. a drop in no-fault states)
• Decline in the domestic murder rate for women (none for men)

Researchers concluded a key driver of these trends was that men were encouraged to behave better because they knew it would be easy for their spouses to divorce. [emphasis mine]

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