Splitsville Gets Smaller

(Cross-posted from Ta-Nehisi Coates)

I had to engage in a bit of uproarious guffawing upon reading this brain-dead take on New York's long-awaited shift to no-fault divorce. The writer pleads for Governor David Patterson to veto the bill, using that tried-and-true "won't somebody please think of the children!" logic lampooned so memorably on The Simpsons. Yet she conveniently ignores two key facts. First, as I recently discussed on Microkhan, there is zero evidence of a correlation between...