Reply To: “Marriage counseling hastens divorce far more often than it saves a marriage”

Re CTLawyer’s comment about Joseph’s citation of CTLawyer’s comment about marriage counselling: There is another factor (aside from the absence of clergy from compulsory marital counselling before divorce in Connecticut) that may skew the divorce rate among the maritally counselled in Connecticut: Because the counselling is compulsory in Connecticut, some couples may enter counselling only as a required formality, with their minds already made up, and with no intention of changing their decisions in the course of counselling. That does not reflect on the wisdom of voluntary counselling by seriously interested couples, but compulsory counselling may be an empty gesture.