Given the number of failed marriages as a result of cheating do you think a law of this type would work to reduce the divorce rate.
I would like to see a law on the books in every state in the USA, that would require a 5 year minimum mandatory prison sentence imposed on anyone who cheats or commits adultery in a marriage. This would include both parties of an adulterous affair.
opinions please.
2007-02-06 22:32:56 · 12 answers · asked by michael_trussell 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
A state legislator in my state is trying to push this type of legislation.
2007-02-06 22:58:12 · update #1
It's immoral, but it isn't a crime. Prisons are already over crowded. I see no point in monitoring this kind of thing. Besides, it happens for many reasons and if you don't walk in the shoes of the person who takes that route then you really don't know. It's not up to us to judge. Just my two cents worth.
2007-02-06 22:38:09 · answer #1 · answered by Night Wind 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think prison is appropriate, but if an unfaithful spouse ends up being divorced from a faithful spouse, they simply lose everything they acquired or created during the marriage.
If they bought a home, had some children, contributed to an IRA or 401(k) they lose all of that since it belongs to the family, and they decided with their actions to no longer be part of the family.
That's the way the law should read, period, and it would apply equally to both men and women.
Man cheats, and he or she decides to divorce, then he leaves his stuff at home.
Woman cheats, and she or her husband decides to divorce, then she leaves, kids and all and "follows her heart."
It's not a crime, and we shouldn't hold someone captive if they don't love you. But they shouldn't get 1/2 the stuff the person they didn't love helped provide, including children.
2007-02-07 07:18:00 · answer #2 · answered by camys_daddy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 years may be a little harsh but i do believe they should get something. I am in Ohio and got divorced last year. My husband cheated, but here that is not grounds. He beat me too, and my lawyer didnt do a thing for me. I do agree that adultery should be more important, it is almost like since so many people do it, the judicial system is almost saying it is ok!!! That is why i would like to see some kind of punishment for it.
2007-02-07 07:45:46 · answer #3 · answered by Takita F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The jails are already packed to the gills with people having committed murder, and other actual crimes. Cheating is not a crime. America's commercialization of the need to get married and all the marital rules regulations and expectations. It cost a crap load of money to get married, and a crap load more to get divorced when bothe are just signed peices of paper. Cheating is NOT the reason...there is a reason for the cheating. People dont go out looking for another person to have "sacred relations" with...it finds them when their , for lack of a better term "jail sentence" at home has become a source of stress, lonelyness, mental, emotional pysical pain....So what is being said here is that when a person takes advantage of the person they are legally bound to for thr rest of thier life, treats them like crap...that the other person should just take it because the Law and the Church says hey you said I DO so deal with it and be miserable for the rest of your life. Marriage is a scam...why do you need to sign a peice of paper to prove Love when inevitably people change and grow apart then they have to sign another peice of paper to prove they dont love each other anymore...That Law will require whole new prisons, higher taxes, childrens lives getting screwed up worse than just the affair or divorce and why..because people are in pursuit of happiness....Get over it...if your partner began to make you feel small invisible, lonely useless and a person showed you attention in an emotionally bad time you would not be able to say that NO I WOULD NOT CHEAT I would just deal with the fact that I signed a peice of paper and I HAVE to live with regret and resentment for the rest of my life....If you havent walked a mile...dont try to assume
2007-02-07 07:38:42 · answer #4 · answered by Kujo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This sound like one of the laws in IRAQ, Afganistan, India, or any country in the mid-east. Adulterous affairs can end in hanging, or being beheaded!
I don't think the USA is ready for such barberic punishments.
2007-02-07 06:37:53 · answer #5 · answered by aunt_beeaa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh..no! While I think it would lower the rate of cheating. It would also make everyone scared to death to get married! Then the whole world would just shack up. It is hard enough to get a man to commit!
2007-02-07 06:37:36 · answer #6 · answered by Mrs. T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And who will pay for all of those prisoners. Do you not think more people cheat than the number of prisoners currently being held in jails in this country?
2007-02-07 06:35:16 · answer #7 · answered by jbari48 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe I read where Michigan was trying to pass that law. I think 5 years is a little steep though.
2007-02-07 06:36:09 · answer #8 · answered by Sweet Cheeks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
seriously i think it will be the sweetest way of getting a revenge on husband/wife if he/she has been unfaithful but in reality these people have a life, jobs, maybe kids they have to provide for and prison isn't a nice place to be. this law would be too harsh but it could be nice maybe punishing them in a different way would be more suitable.
2007-02-07 06:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by curious 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would definitely stop cheating, but it would have to be proven and sometimes that's hard to do, as most cheating is done secretly. and who is going to enforce this, and the prisons are already full, so as good as it sounds it won't work.
2007-02-07 07:53:41 · answer #10 · answered by jude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋