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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by forty on Saturday February 06, 2021 @06:13PM (#26051033)
The benefit of being protected by the divorce. Divorce is here to protect the "weaker" (sorry probably not the right word) party.

For example if they have kids and one of the parent stops working to raise the kids, divorce will make sure that person is not left without anything.

There is another civil union (the PACS) and as far as I know the main (and maybe only) differences is that PACS do not get divorce (you can part much more quickly, each party just get their own stuff and that's it) and something related to ineritance taxes. So that's the main reasons why people marry I guess :)

To be fair, I'll add that it's also not legal to marry religiously if you are not married civilly, so some people probably get married civilly just to be able to marry religiously.

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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by wott on Saturday February 06, 2021 @06:25PM (#26051120)
> For example if they have kids and one of the parent stops working to raise the kids, divorce will make sure that person is not left without anything.

It isn't the divorce which creates those rights, it is the marriage. The divorce rules only make it so that those rights are not abruptly suppressed after the dissolution of the marriage.

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