by Bill Fancher and Fred Jackson
It is another sad commentary on the state of marriage in this country.
In Lincoln County, Washington, Mondays are “Divorce Days.”
There, hundreds of marriages are dissolved weekly with just a stroke of a pen.
According to Family News in Focus, Lincoln County is one of the few places in America where a couple can be divorced without a court appearance. Petitions for divorce find their way from around the state to the Lincoln County Courthouse where a judge will spend up to six hours every Monday signing them.
Jason Krafsky, community strategies director of Families Northwest says it is a sad commentary on our culture.
Krafsky points out that [in Washington,] it is harder to erase the charges off a cellular phone bill than it is to erase the names off of a marriage certificate. “I think that is a really sad indication of the times that we are [living] in right now,” Krafsky says.
As a response to this social trend, Krafsky says that many churches in the Pacific Northwest now require couples to complete counseling before they perform a marriage ceremony.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
