| You're both overlooking the point, which is not to punish the act after the fact but to PREVENT it from happening in the first place. Going by such generalized and flawed reasoning, Child Protective Services should leave the children of a convicted child molestor in the sex offendor's custody because the molestation of said children has not yet occured. That would not only be negligence, but the gross endangerment of the children involved. The same reasoning applies in regards to polygamy; when roughly 90% of such unions involve either the statutory rape of girls 18 years and older or the molestation of girls 16 years or older, reason dictates that it should not be a legally condoned institution.
Also, this isn't even touching the issues of community property and alimony involved in the circumstance of a divorce. |