What do you think of the 7 year marriage idea?

In Germany, they are trying to change marriage laws to expire after 7 years. They believe this will cut down on the number of divorces if couples know they only have to wait until their marriage expires. Happy couples will have to renew their marriage license at the end of every 7 year term.





Would you be for or against this? Personally, I think it will cause more problems than it will solve- Divorce proceedings are necessary to set up child custody/visitation/support. If the marriage just expires- what happens to the kids and/or accumulated assets?What do you think of the 7 year marriage idea?
Personally this sounds like another way for the government to get more money out of individuals. I assume you need to pay to renew your license.





The big losers though is the family when it becomes almost automatic that the parents get seperated. It is too easy to call it quite, I know of too many people who are looging for an excuse to avoid their responsibilities as a parent.





Being a parent is not just supporting a child financially, that is easy. A parent must be there to help out the child when in need.What do you think of the 7 year marriage idea?
Leave it to those wacky Europeans to come up with the damndest ';solutions'; to their perceived problems!





So now the state will divorce you at the end of seven years - you don't even have to bother doing it yourself - and the statisticians will be able to report that the divorce rate has gone way down? Well, gee whiz, that's a huge step in the right direction. NOT!





It's probably all academic anyway as marriage is not exactly the most popular way Europeans have of getting together and having (or not having) kids these days. Not in Germany or in any of the other northern European countries. It's even declining significantly in Italy and Spain.





The next time a Democratic Party politician starts talking about the way they do something in some European country, try not to fall on the floor laughing as they are genuinely not like us over there. Very nice folks, though - I have a GREAT time on every visit. There is just little that they have or do that is worthy of emulation by us Americans. Vive la Diff茅rence!
Another government infringement upon the freedoms of citizens. This would utterly destroy many families.





Many marriages struggle at some time or another, and if one were struggling at the 7-year mark, the likelihood of that marriage continuing would be reduced.





I think it's time the Germans recalled that candidate or voted her out of office.
my idea was 3 year renewable contracts; all particulars are drawn up when people are in love, for example house split, children etc; at 3 years you have the option to renew or not ; if not the divorce contract comes into play with no exception if you want to renew , you do ; everyone stays on their best behavior if you want to renew if not, you already know the consequences and can't argue it or change it ; that is a commitment
here is my idea, take away all the benefits marrieds get and let people get married because they want to be.
The purpose of marriage is to assure all parties that should a child be conceived they are assured a mother and father. This is a till death commitment. The selfish age we live in people get married they think life is all about them. It is not once you get married you are a couple you no longer put your own needs above the health of the couple when you have a child.





The importance of Family children and wives has been given no monetary value and therefore worthless to the greedy generation.
My partner and I were joking about this saying that Year 6 would be FABULOUS because you'd be trying really hard to maintain the other person's interest. But we don't have kids and that would add another dimension.
';...till 7 years do us part';


That doesn't sound very romantic or spiritual, does it?


What would even be the point of getting married anymore?