Divorce cases in the U.S. now account for 35 to 50 percent of civil litigation,
at a cost to the public purse of billions of dollars per year.
Out of these cases has grown a vast panoply of
ancillary bureaucracies: social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists, child protection experts and enforcers, counselors, mediators, divorce planners, forensic accountants, and so forth. Behind a smoke screen of piety concerning the difficult job they have to do in "helping" or "providing services," their purpose is the human equivalent of the breaker's yard:
They tear asunder the superstructure of the family and then move to the foundations, demolishing relationships between husband and wife, between parents and children, and even sometimes between the children themselves.
In his scrupulously researched book on how the sexual revolution has proven a war against fathers, Stephen Baskerville, professor of government at Patrick Henry College, describes the costs of divorce:
Comment: And that is how the financial game is played.