I think it's quite enterprising.
I dimly recall marrying twenty-odd years ago and making all sorts of promises about good times, bad times, sickness and all that associated malarky. They were promises.
Many of my children's friends now have to juggle lives between mum's house, dad's house and all the rest of it. They rarely spend an entire week in the same dwelling and the smaller ones often leave an 'important' toy at the wrong house. Their lives rotate in part around the journey and drop-off between the new homes of their separated parents.
Mum and/or dad may re-marry and there are step-siblings, step-grandparents and then after the second separation there are former step-siblings and former step-grandparents. In between separations, half-siblings may be born and these may sometimes have to choose one parent over another and one set of step-siblings over another. Many grandparents see very little of their grandchildren after a separation.
I know adults who have experienced all of the above. We're told that these complicated and bewildering arrangements are made 'for the good of the children'.
We are in danger as a society of making love a conditional emotion, which I find slightly tragic.
If a lawyer wants to take a fee from that, I do not see him or her as the malefactor.
I find it quite bizarre that eternity now means 'as long as it takes to eat a McDonalds or find someone better'.
The closest person to me who went through a divorce was my Brother-in-Law. I saw it tear his children, his parents and his sister to pieces. He suffered too. How much better just to choose well in the first place.
As we seem incapable as a society of doing that, all power to a lawyer who wants a cut.