Designer divorces for foolish d-bags

The Star wants us all to stay hopeful regarding love, marriage and contributing to the gross national product: "In the last five years, more couples settled divorces without needing a trial to solve money, property and custody issues, according to a recent national survey of lawyers . . . In 2002, one in three Jackson County residents seeking divorce went to trial to settle cases. Four years later, only one in four needed a trial. Meanwhile, the number seeking divorce fell 29 percent. In Johnson County, the number of divorces filed and those settled by trial changed little from 2002 through 2006. But taking the county’s 10,000-a-year population growth into account, per-capita divorce rates are dropping, mirroring national trends." Again, most of these stats often fail to take into account that few people are bothering to get married and the cold, hard, fact that I've never known even one happily married couple.