Win a Free Divorce....

An Australian men's magazine is offering one of it's readers a free divorce, complete with a divorce party featuring a bunch of pin-up girls. There is also a three-tiered divorce cake, a cleaner for two months, a plasma TV, Playstation 3 and a year's subscription to the magazine. They claim the total package to be valued at $10,000.

According to Zoo editor Paul Merrill ,"If a marriage fails it's sad, but what's sadder is being stuck under the same roof as a woman who's just slept with your best mate." He also says "Our lucky winner will get to escape and start a new whole new life. We'll help him at every stage - from buying a new plasma screen and throwing him a party, to finding him a new girlfriend".

So I bet there are scores of unhappy married men down under sending in their applications to win a free divorce, their wives completely clueless. Men who have only briefly thought of divorce, but now are encouraged by this magazine's vulgar contest.

How about offering to pay for marital counseling as the prize instead? Or maybe offer the divorce party and other goodies to a man who is already divorced or going through one. What is disturbing here is that this magazine is encouraging men to leave their wives. They are glorifying divorce with the promise of pin up girls, electronic toys and bachelorhood. It is irresponsible and unethical to participate in the breakup of a marriage. Offering help after the divorce decision has been made is a different story. It is too bad this magazine is more interested in publicity and magazine sales than their readers.