Hereorthere, I am so happy that you or your neighbors have never known the tzurus of living in a household where the two people are not meant to be together. Speaking from experience, there are times where divorce is absolutely necessary. Aside from your outlandish and ignorant claims that women and some men too never face any form of spousal abuse, claims which are not supported by your two examples that hardly apply to the situation of a family nor by statistical data, bad marriages do occur and it is often within the iron curtain of privacy allowed to the family institution that they flourish. Has it ever occurred to you that such instances might be beyond your knowledge because the parties involved fear shame and embarrassment from their situation?
And to those who believe the children are the greatest victims of a divorce: sometimes it is the children who have the most to gain. I am not talking about gaining material things because of alimony payments. I mean that when a couple stays together “for the sake of the children,” the onus of guilt that those children then have to carry with them for the rest of their lives is quite unbearable. It can do psychological damage and endanger the children’s own ability to form meaningful relationships in the future!