Who is afraid of divorce?

Pauline Miceli and Jason Azzoppardi discuss the pros and cons of divorce:

Malta remains one of the very few countries in the world where divorce is not legalised.The issue of divorce was first mentioned in the 1960’s when the then Labour Party led by Mr Mintoff battled for the separation of state and church. Civil marriage was one of the issues on the party’s agenda. As a child, then, I remember the parish priest preaching about how divorce would naturally follow civil marriage with all its inherent evil. Civil marriage was at last introduced in 1975. This marked the beginning of secularisation in Malta, rather late when one considers that many European countries had gone through this centuries earlier. The harsh and bitter experience suffered by the Labour party supporters left the party wary. Divorce became the unmentionable issue...