Example, someone I once knew.
Married man, had a kid.
His wife and his own brother started an affair.
They pushed him out of his own family home.
They now live together and raise HIS kid.
That should be a criminal offence.
They should do some jailtime for that.
And I actually HATED this guy and I still think he should have legal recourse.
> His wife and his own brother started an affair. They pushed him out of his own family home. They now live together and raise HIS kid.
What a weird situation. "I have something to tell you, stepson. Your uncle is also your daddy."
Pity that shunning, the pillory, and other such punishments have gone out of fashion. Those two deserve it.
Adultery is a crime in many U.S. states.
shareIs that right? Did not know that (I'm in the UK)
shareIt is, but like one of my old college profs would say, the law is the law only when it's enforced. I doubt if anyone has been prosecuted for adultery in decades.
Come to think of it, I wonder how many states even have those laws today. Kentucky, where I live, is pretty conservative and had some "blue laws" on the books for a long time which were never enforced. But the last time I looked I found that the legislature had repealed many of those in the past few years. I wonder how many other states have done similar things.
Here is a list, but does not indicate how often such laws are actually enforced, and to what degree.
https://www.womansday.com/relationships/dating-marriage/a50994/adultery-laws/
Interesting article
Adultery is clearly one of the worst non-violent offenses I can think of and yet I'm not wild about the gov't getting involved in people's private lives
The betrayed spouse or live-in lover should certainly not lose their home or children in any event
That is cold
you can hate him, condemn him, shun him. there's lots of people who've done things i think are awful. i haven't talked to my brother in law for years because he's such a corrosive dink imo.
but i don't think it will do us much good to make being creepy or having bad judgement a criminal offense. or just falling for someone who some people would say you shouldn't fall for. like a woman falling for her brother in law. that's just the way things go sometimes. it's a funny old world.
generally speaking, i think the world works best when people are allowed to navigate their own lives and make their own choices. when we have to make decisions on how much to use the law to regulate people's lives, i always want to come down on the side of more freedom, not less.
they can face the consequences of their actions through the judgement of their friends and families.
And in other cases, idiocy should be punishable by death. Not naming names, but you know those guys who shoot their fat mouths off on the internet about all sorts of made up bullshit and are completely inconsistent with their stories and only seem to exist to hear the sound of the shit that flows from their own mouths?
Yeah, those guys really suck.
You mean me?
sharehe would have been compensated for his half of the home. i am sure australia has matrimonial property rights. he could also make the case for custody of the kid.
shareIt's still a criminal offense in several states but I believe it's usually a misdemeanor with a fine. I think there are bigger issues and it's a waste of taxpayer dollars to pursue those sorts of cases.
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