{"id":482905,"date":"2021-05-07T21:35:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T01:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=482905"},"modified":"2021-05-07T21:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T01:35:42","slug":"bill-gates-wants-privacy-but-divorce-is-not-a-private-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-wants-privacy-but-divorce-is-not-a-private-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Wants \u2018Privacy,\u2019 But Divorce Is Not A Private Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-gates-wants-privacy-but-divorce-is-not-a-private-matter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=482905&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-181317285-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>After 27 years, three kids, and $130 billion dollars, Bill and Melinda Gates are calling it quits. \u201cWe no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in the next phase of our lives,\u201d the couple explained in a joint statement. \u201cWe ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.\u201d Putting aside for a moment the insipid boomer twaddle about \u201cgrowing\u201d into \u201cphases\u201d as the <em>raison d\u2019\u00eatre<\/em>\u00a0of marriage, the Gates\u2019 request for privacy reads as equally ridiculous. Divorce is not a private matter.<\/p>\n<p>A couple cannot wed in private. Even elopers at the Elvis Chapel in Las Vegas require the presence of a minister and witnesses to tie the knot. They recite vows before the King \u2014 if not the King of the universe, at least the King of Rock and Roll. And they make a promise to society as well that they will remain together \u201cfor better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death\u201d do them part. Usually, the betrothed invite family and friends to watch the ceremony and afterward to take part in a reception. Weddings are public events because marriage is a political institution. It is the fundamental political institution, and as marriages collapse, so does society.<\/p>\n<p>Divorce introduces disorder into the family and society, harming children and the deserted spouse. Moreover, by making a mockery of marriage vows, divorce undermines the institution of marriage itself, damaging the countless families to whom it spreads like a plague. For this reason, healthy nations discourage divorce. Until the mid-to-late twentieth century, divorce was illegal in Argentina, Brazil, India, Ireland, and Italy, among other places. Chile prohibited divorce as late as 2004. Malta held out until 2011. And in the Philippines and Vatican City, divorce remains illegal to this very day.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has long maintained more lax divorce laws than our sometime-quasi-countrymen in the Philippines. But Americans always had to prove fault if they wanted to dissolve their marriage. Every state in the union prohibited so-called \u201cno-fault\u201d divorce until California in 1969, under governor Ronald Reagan \u2014 a decision he came to regret as one of the worst mistakes of his political career. Even liberal New York outlawed \u201cno-fault\u201d divorce until just over a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>As states liberalized divorce laws, the divorce rate predictably skyrocketed. But the subsequent dip in the divorce rate did not bode well for society either. Rather, it signaled an even more disturbing trend: people stopped getting married at all. In recent years, the marriage rate has dropped to all-time lows \u2014 understandably so, as politicians continue to rob that bedrock political institution of meaning. As marriage has collapsed, so too has the U.S. birth rate, which has generally remained below replacement levels since 1971 and hit an all-time low last year.<\/p>\n<p>Broken homes beget broken homes, and eventually they break the country. Purportedly private sins cause public problems for the polity. But neither Left nor Right seems willing to take the political action necessary to stop the breakdown. Both sides embrace the \u201cno-fault\u201d fiction, and everyone suffers the repercussions.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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