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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Carbon copy
IT seems to me that the Civil Partnership Bill is a carbon copy of the strategy on divorce.
A minority party is naming its price for its support and this is being acceded to without regard to the effect on society.
In divorce, the State accepted that marriage was only for as long as it lasted. In the Civil Partnership Bill, the State is going further: it is saying marriage is whatever you want to make of it yourself.
The price in both cases is being paid by a group hardly mentioned in divorce and not mentioned at all in the Civil Partnership Bill: children.
A major result of divorce has been that one in three births in Ireland is now without any commitment by one or both parents who brought those children into the world. In my view, the hidden effect on children will be acerbated greatly if the Civil Partnership Bill is passed.
Donal O’Driscoll
Submitted by email
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