Grace Could Use Feminists' Help South Carolina's Divorce Laws Are Deplorable

Augusta Chronicle, The › May 09, 2006

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It's true. Karyn Grace's pleas to South Carolina's legislature to change the state's divorce laws to allow "mental cruelty" as grounds for divorce fell on deaf ears Thursday. But that's not the real story.

The real story is that South Carolina's divorce laws are mired in the 19th century, and that they're being enforced with a Taliban mentality.

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Grace Could Use Feminists' Help South Carolina's Divorce Laws Are Deplorable

How could lawmakers not be moved to action by the former Karyn Young's tragic story? Her two sons, Gunner, 7, and Ryker, ...

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