And the implication that "love" isn't desirable in a marriage because it's a modern idea is laughable. Child mortality rates less than 80% are a relatively new innovation; shall we get rid of those too? Loving marriages are a good thing. But by all means, if you want to spend the rest of your life co-habitating with someone you loathe, by my guest.
Do you believe majority of bad marriages are abusive?
Statistics show that neither do divorces and single parents.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240051/ (“The best scientific literature to date suggests that, with the exception of parents faced with unresolvable marital violence, children fare better when parents work at maintaining the marriage.”).
> Children exposed to abusive marriages are predisposed to considering abusive marriages normal, therefore perpetuating the cycle.
Abuse used to be a ground for divorce prior to modern no-fault divorce.
> And the implication that "love" isn't desirable in a marriage because it's a modern idea is laughable.
Obviously it’s desirable. But if you take a shot at your love marriage, and then you “fall out of love,” should you be able to inflict the financial and emotional damage of divorce on your kids?