I hope I'd have taken some different decisions than Mutari (starting with following the ex- to whatever state she moved to, damn the torpedoes). That said, I think what's honest-to-goodness absurd is that we have tolerated a system that's so poorly designed that it's easy to predict that lots of basically decent people will find themselves in situations not unlike Mutari's. It doesn't require a Libertarian to trace the design of the system and see that it all but guarantees horrific compounding of injury for large numbers of people who've been involuntarilly tossed into our society's new acceptable N-word and who, as a practical matter, have no way to protect themselves. Most Americans will be unemployed for one or more lengthy periods. To prosecute some suffering soul (already financially savaged, treated as a second-class parent in violation of their conscience, then they lose their job, have extremely limited funds, and can't afford an attorney) for being in a position that we could never prosecute him/her for if they were still married ... if that's not evil, nothing is. This is part of the elephant at the party that we manage to avoid talking about. I'm pretty sure we're going to get it hustled out of the room before it dumps so much dung on the rug that there's no safe place to step but it's really sad to think about all the lives needlessly ruined by the Three Monkey Politics of the issue.