N o one really travels; in fact, they flee, they escape a hated, stressful daily grind. lhe old HOME OF ONE'S OWN is now ON ONE, in the panoply of communicating objects, electronic trinkets, that yo u carry away wi th you, in this amicable divorce of repeat delocalization.
Is this due to the increase in life expectancy? We might note, whatever the case may be, that the divorce rate for people sixty years and older has risen by close to 30% for women and 40% for men . Also according to France's lnstitut nationale detudes demographiques (INED), it's worse for people in their fifties, as the rates have practically doubled.
Here again, we notice the same acceleration as wi th p ublic transport: for some, it's a case o� supersonic and shortly hypersupersonic flight; for others, express divorce. Since 45% o f marriages now end in divorce, we may as well simplify the usual procedure straight away and make the break of load between spouses even faster and cheaper with a l aw that specifically combats the inertia of husbands and wives, low-cost divorce trivializing the family saga of yore. lhat's why Rachida Dati's last proj ect, as Keeper of the Seals and Minister of J ustice, was to reform divorce so that a couple can now separate, subito presto, simply by coming before their notary. 1
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1 Le Monde, 16 August 2009.
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