Long before red-pilled streamers like Steven Crowder, Tim Pool, and Matt Walsh were agitating for an end to no-fault divorce laws, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was urging conservatives to “reconsider” the wisdom of legal reforms that made it easier to dissolve a marriage. Just two years after the last state in the country adopted no-fault divorce, Hawley questioned the practice in an op-ed for National Affairs.
“Americans are in a disagreeable mood,” Hawley, then a plucky young lawyer with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, wrote in 2012. The problem, he concluded, was the decline of two-parent families, and he had a prescription to fix it. “Conservatives should support tax reforms — like increased child credits and marriage credits — that reward two-parent families … And they should reconsider the wisdom of no-fault divorce.”
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