One issue that is not being addressed is the impact of "the marriage never existed" on families i.e. the children born of the "non-marriage". While it is true that many weddings do not result in marriages, why not admit that some marriages entered into in good faith on the part of both persons eventually fail for any number of reasons. Helping the couple move on through a ritual of some other means may be more honest than pretending that there was never  marriage to begin with.

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