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Bill: For the CHILDREN & Parents Act [ :( ]
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2491
Description[?]:
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The legality of divorces (if marriages are recognised).
Old value:: Divorces are legal, be it mutual consent, grounded cause or if one partner wants it.
Current: Divorces are legal, be it mutual consent, grounded cause or if one partner wants it.
Proposed: Divorces are only legal with grounded cause (such as adultery, or violence).
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:38:24, November 24, 2007 CET | From | Permissive Social Union | To | Debating the For the CHILDREN & Parents Act [ :( ] |
| Message | We support this restriction of civil liberties. In fact, we may consider proposing outlawing divorce altogether as the next logical step. |
| Date | 06:32:24, November 24, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the For the CHILDREN & Parents Act [ :( ] |
| Message | How can keeping two unhappy people closeted together.... be a good thing? It will be hell for them, and it will be hell for anyone close to them. Add to that the fact that the children are the most likely witnesses, and the CWFP is pushing an agenda that will scar the children of today, and wipe out what little sanctity is left in the marriages of tomorrow. |
| Date | 07:56:40, November 24, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the For the CHILDREN & Parents Act [ :( ] |
| Message | Drang, you have it BACKWARDS!!! Divorces actually tramatize the CHILDREN b/c they have the difficult decision of choosing "which parent is best???" when they love them equally. Therefore, we believe that divorce should be legal, but ONLY in serious circumstances such as abuse and adultery. Do NOT vote for this bill for little ol' "us"? Rather, vote for it for the CHILDREN of Likatonia!!! |
| Date | 15:42:41, November 24, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Workers' Party and CTUL List | To | Debating the For the CHILDREN & Parents Act [ :( ] |
| Message | The DWP is certain that while it is hard to formulate a general quantification of different sources of trauma to children, on the whole, children are more traumatised by experiencing drastically unhappy marriages. Furthermore, this will lead to extremely detrimental long-term societal effects: children will grow up assuming marriage equates to unhappiness, therefore either withholding from marriage altogether or suffering a poverty of hope and expectation; an increase suicide rate within unhappy marriages without grounded cause for divorce; an increase of adulterous behaviour and domestic abuse out of sheer desperation to end a marriage. We are sure you'll agree that none of these consequences are desirable in the slightest. |
| Date | 15:46:57, November 24, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the For the CHILDREN & Parents Act [ :( ] |
| Message | We are at the position that if Likatonian citizens are UNHAPPY with their marriage w/o cause of adultery or abuse, they do what RATIONAL people do: that is, they seek FAMILY and/or MARRIAGE COUNSELING!!!! |
| Date | 16:49:04, November 24, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the For the CHILDREN & Parents Act [ :( ] |
| Message | Don't worry CWFP, we won't vote for this bill for lil ol you. We won't vote for it at all. We shall vote for the best outcome for children, and that is allowing terminally broken marriages to be dissolved without adding greater acrimony. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 102 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 303 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 261 |
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