Are you a woman or male feminist (western type)? Because all your questions are asked from a woman's standing point even though they apply equally on both genders. For example, why would men get married if divorce is so difficult??? No need to answer these are rhetoric questions.
Before the 1980s, divorce was a taboo, the divorce law may not be strictier but the social pressure from family and society was much harsher than today, as harsh as if the word "divorcee" is branded on the forehead. Yet people get married without hesitation because marriage was the norm, sex before marriage and cohabitation were "crimes".
The law may have some impact but not much compared to people's attitude and value. Instead of blaming the law, the true question should be asking every oneself, does oneself really love the other to marry, does oneself vow to treat the other as oneself, respect and care no matter what. If there is doubt and you have to prepare for that possibility then marriage isn't your thing and why bother the law that doesn't apply to you? If there is no doubt then why bother the legal term that you won't face?
None of the above. Let's just say I seen certain things firsthand growing up and would therefore be more vocal about said things.
IIRC one of the divorce laws is that you must do the divorce court proceedings in the same exact town/ place you registered the marriage (which is extremely inflexible and dumb). And this said place is usually in
one of the involved party's hometown, which many times leads to extreme one-sided bias, and you have no way out of it.
You have no idea how fked up and ridiculous the rulings can be if the court is fully in favour of one party due to reasons such as regional bias etc. Or how a sick minded person can easily hold the divorce hostage (with the given connections) while inflicting abuse continuously, which gains him all possible bargaining chips in the proceedings.
This is just one example, and there's definitely something that can be massively improved on here. And whenever I see such a new law being drafted, I will always think to myself how can the situation that's been etched in my mind be possibly avoided under this new rule, and honestly, I just don't see it.
The law may have some impact but not much compared to people's attitude and value. Instead of blaming the law, the true question should be asking every oneself, does oneself really love the other to marry, does oneself vow to treat the other as oneself, respect and care no matter what. If there is doubt and you have to prepare for that possibility then marriage isn't your thing and why bother the law that doesn't apply to you? If there is no doubt then why bother the legal term that you won't face?
I completely disagree with this. This goes against every fundamental principle of having a Law or a Justice system in the first place.
While I do agree with your sentiments, but what you are saying here is effectively victim blaming.
Laws (especially in the context of criminal and family law) are not drafted to tell the victim, "I told you so, you should have chosen better previously". Laws are there to eliminate criminal behaviour, abuse or negative effects of society, in a manner that ensures fairness and justice to all. Laws are there to ensure every safety net and well-being of a citizen is considered and therefore guaranteed to the best of its abilities. If not, the law is either ineffective or even a failure and should be improved on.
A "vow", as you said, is just a "vow", it can easily be broken after marriage, and in actual fact, it frequently does. Words are just words and people do in fact change or turn out to be different. If the law does not protect its people in such a high statistical scenario, then it should rightly be questioned and amended. Saying that a person should choose their path in such a precise way, so that they are not required to deal with the dire consequences of falling out of protection in the framework of an inadequate law, as if people should be able to predict the future or face disaster, is not helpful at all. It is in fact logically and morally reprehensible, and this mindset would lead to the downfall of a society.