Resolved: Child's consent should be required for parent's divorce

Currently, due to the increasing divorce rate, more and more children are being victimized. As a solution, many people think that asking for children's consent will solve the problem. However, there are some parents who are willing to divorce, but are not able to do so, simply because of their children. Contrary to the popular belief, I believe that agreement of children in order to divorce for parents is unnecessary, and the three reason why I support this claim are about immaturity, nature of children, and the parental rights. First of all, children are still immature, regardless of their age. Not to mention young children that they are not mature, even if the children reaches the age of adolescent, they might be physically mature. However, they are never mentally mature. A clear example will be rights to vote. There is no single country that offers voting power to someone besides adult. This can evidently show that even children at age of 17 are still not completely mentally mature, and there is some likelihood that they will not make the correct choice. As it is shown in the example, the same thing might occur with divorce. There is no certainty that the mentally immature children would make the correct and proper decision. Second, regardless of what situation it is, the nature of the children would let the children choose not divorcing. In other words, consent of children is meaningless and ineffective. As many studies such as experiment of Goodall on chimpanzee, have indicated that every single child have instinct not to leave his or her parent, and hoping to be protected, by having a harmonious family. In order to maintain the family harmonious, the children would rather choose to let their parents stay together, and there is no use of giving right if the choice is already determined. Furthermore, actually way more psychological harm could be exerted on children in this stage than during the divorce. That is because the literal relationship and the shape of family remains, and the parent will still need to get together, and there will be much more conflict, and family trouble. Before we consider how to reduce the divorce, the actual problem is not at divorce, since it is a natural occurrence just as marriage, but the cause for the divorce, mainly the family trouble is what it needs to be solved. But, asking for compliance of children with divorce will simply just lower the figure of the divorce rate, and never solve or even, indeed, worsen the family trouble. Finally, right to divorce is a component of the parental rights, and these will be demonstrated by viewing right to divorce into 3 unique perspective. The first view of the right is about the main body. Evidently, the main body, or the subject of divorce is parent, the two individuals. Some may argue that since children are also family members, they also are the subjects of divorce. However, this statement totally contradicts the definition of divorce, which is an action to quit the status of the relationship of marriage. In other words, it is finishing husband-wife relationship, not father-mother-son-daughter relationship. Now, it is clear that divorce is something to do with parents, not their children. Furthermore, I do know and admit that children do have right to speak out, but still the right of the main body should be prioritized, and should not be interfered, or even violated by the secondary body. The second perspective is considering divorce as a opposite concept of marriage. It is evident that those two terms are just the opposite. Now, we have to bear in mind that the right to marry is at two individuals, who eventually become parent. Then, we could easily get the conclusion from here that also the right to divorce should be offered to the two individuals. It is illogical to give someone rights to establish the relationship, and then not to give the one rights to quit the relationship. The last view is about duty-rights relationship. Those two always come together. If the duty or responsibility is given, rights and freedom to do certain activity is also provided, and the opposite case is also the same. Once parents' duty is to be responsible for to stabilize and maintain the family, they are also provided with rights to determine the existence of relationship of husband-wife or even the total family. Since children are immature, their nature will still make themselves veto, and it is right of parents to divorce, I strongly disagree with requiring for consent of children in order to divorce.