THERE'S REALLY NO SUCH THING AS A NO-FAULT DIVORCE: David Yount

..."No fault" is clearly a euphemism when applied to the breaking of a holy bond meant to last a lifetime. No couple parts without acknowledging or assigning blame. The fault and the pain are personal.

The poet T.S. Eliot called divorce the death of the spirit -- even worse than the extremes of physical pain. "Every day a little death," composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim remarked of divorce.

Bob Geldof, the former punk rocker and Live Aid promoter, has mounted a campaign to save marriages by making divorce more difficult to obtain.

In two British TV documentaries, "Geldof on Marriage" and "Geldof on Fathers," he points to the financial burden placed on all taxpayers for government benefits to single parents.

"I know it's uncool," he admits, "and I truly have no desire to cause upset or offense by saying this, but the truth of every study is clear: dual-parent upbringing produces healthier, better-educated children. That's it." ...

Geldof blames marital breakdown on "an overblown sense of self. We imagine ourselves to be free people, but we should not be free to destroy others, especially children," he argues.

Government, he believes, must act to protect marriage by making it more difficult to divorce: "We've got to take back the right to speak about the most important institution that man has evolved over thousands of years."

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