On-line divorces add ease and privacy into an otherwise painful and expensive proceeding. The multitude of information provided can be extremely empowering for a disoriented spouse. Uncontested divorces match well with the Internet environment, but in a messy contested divorce, a live attorney, child custody agency actors and the courts provide necessary boundaries for parities who have already established they could not fix their problems on their own. Technology, law and politics all come together in the Internet Society. The family and its regulation can not escape the speed and access the technology provides.
Divorces can be cleaner and a marriage can be public and socially legitimate.
Individuals can reach each other and deal with matters that once required entering the public realm because that was where the information and tools resided. At once all that has changed. It is as if the private can remain private, to a degree. The public involvement in the private realm of the home has provided, for example, protection of abused children and fair distribution of financial assets. Intermediaries are needed, but the Internet is changing who those intermediaries are and when and where they enter.