Some unconventional news stories for you to go with your Sunday morning coffee and apricot croissant….
- Divorce risk is increased by long military deployments – A philosophical debate is to be had, we think, on the delicate structure that is marriage, and whether our governments play a part in how they succeed or fail…
- How irrational behaviour can lead to divorce – but the article focuses on people with mental illness. An interesting, and potentially controversial piece.
- 3,666 divorces for 189 marriages in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia – Electronic divorce is apparently the culprit – or is it something else?
Researching Reform 
How irrational behaviours can lead to divorce
I would strongly concur with the findings in this article.
In my experience as a detached observer, there is a very high percentage of females with Post Traumatic Stress Disorders and Depressive Illnesses, and males with Anti-Social /Narcissistic Personality Disorders in those who engage in Family Law proceedings and which lead to high conflict over the distribution of joint assets and arrangements for the care of children.
It is so obvious that I would suggest it should be automatic for parties to be ordered to have a full psychiatric assessment prior to such proceedings before such adversarial contests begin, in order that Courts are fully aware of the implications of such mental disorders for those proceedings and the outcomes.
Unfortunately there also appears to be a very significant proportion of the legal profession and judiciary in the Family Courts with such Personality Disorders, particularly Narcissistic Personality Disorder, so that it is often literally a case of “the lunatics being in charge of the asylum”. It is little wonder that outcomes of family Law proceedings are so often bizarre and idiosyncratic and devoid of the application of clear reasoning and logic.
As many of the threads on this website illustrate, it is very difficult not to be drawn into this madness and to maintain clear rational thoughts, rather be drawn into the prejudicees and biases so often apparent and so often the products of the aforementioned, disorders.
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Hi Ragnvald,
Your suggestion is very interesting. I think my main concerns would be: the quality of diagnoses inside the system, whether or not the disorders are severe enough that they warrant treatment or can be abated with some empathy and compassion and whether an understanding of family breakdown and its impact on behaviour is fully understood.
Whilst I’m much more in favour of a light touch when it comes to these things, I do think quality diagnoses where necessary would be a good thing.
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