It’s not marriage that’s the issue but the punitive laws surrounding marriage in the US that actually incentivize divorce, combined with a culture that has norm

It’s not marriage that’s the issue but the punitive laws surrounding marriage in the US that actually incentivize divorce, combined with a culture that has normalized divorce. The laws and culture just don’t match up. The US has a social issue with some women using divorce for personal enrichment and neither US culture nor law penalizes this behavior. In many countries people who get divorced unnecessary are subject to social stigmatization. This stigma seems to be a necessary ingredient of a successful marriage culture, and the loss of it is why marriage in the US has stopped working. Marriage in the US is essentially Russian roulette with your finances, although the odds of losing are a lot worse.