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If Tom and Gerri would each individually be better off with a divorce, but their kid Terri would be worse off to a greater degree than the sum of the benefits to Tom and Gerri, and may not be involved in the negotiations, wouldn't it be safe to say that the covenant marriage is clearly superior in maximizing total well-being?
If we assume that all marital conflicts are negotiable, the covenant marriage has no offsetting advantages: It keeps couples together only in those cases where they'd both be happier apart.
1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
While we're at it, let's compare three kinds of marriage: a no-fault contract (where either party can obtain a divorce on demand), a mutual-consent contract (where both parties must agree to a divorce), and a covenant marriage (where even mutual consent is not enough).
But how long do you think it will be before the Wall Street Journal runs an op-ed by David Blankenhorn pointing out that if the couples in these cases had only had covenant marriages, those kids would be alive today?