If you look at a marriage as a physical object much like a house, then trying to destroy that would be akin to trying to burn the home down... with the family inside as victims
I can find far less offensive crimes (vandalism or burglary for example) that are criminal offenses. I just don't understand why someone violating a home putting each member of the household through the ringer for months, or even years, and finally causing the family to end the home and part ways as something that should be overlooked by criminal law.
In employement law we have constructive dismissal which tastes similar :
In employment law, constructive dismissal, also called constructive discharge, occurs when employees resign because their employer's behaviour has become so heinous or made life so difficult that they may consider themselves to have been fired. The employee must prove that the behaviour was unlawful — that the employer's actions amounted to a fundamental breach of contract, also known as a repudiatory breach of contract.
The exact legal consequences differ between different countries, but generally a constructive dismissal leads to the employee's obligations ending and the employee acquiring the right to make claims against the employer. For example in the United Kingdom, a claim for "unfair dismissal" and a claim for "wrongful dismissal" may arise.
The employee may resign over a single serious incident or over a pattern of incidents. Generally, the employee must have resigned soon after the incident.
The notion of constructive dismissal comes from the concept that (as it is phrased in United Kingdom law) "An employer must not, without reasonable or proper cause, conduct himself in a manner calculated or likely to destroy or seriously damage the relationship of trust and confidence between the employer and the employee." (Courtaulds Northern Textiles Ltd v Andrew [1979] IRLR 84, EAT.)
- From wikipedia
If you read that with some tweaking it can be read against infidleity, with the third party being the employer.
How on earth is it that we can punish an employer for driving an employee out of their workplace, but we cannot punish a third party for driving a WS out of their marriage?
