Covenants, i.e.

In christian language, it's meant to be something that you don't just promise to the other person, but you promise before god. The stake came in and regulated it and made these contracts standard. And so much of the problem around divorce has been the standardization of the marriage contract. Since no-fault divorce laws have gone into play, its more dramatic to the couple and their children. It's become this like, giant industry now. There was a survey done a while ago about how dramatic life events are for people who go through divorces. They had a dismemberment or an immediate loss of one loved one they had also had a ritually disembowelled