Re: [Gramps-users] Is there a particular reason why "Divorce" isn't included as a relationship type?

[John W. K. <Joh...@xs...>]

Nick,

In response to my remarks you wrote:

"My view is that a marriage event occurs at the beginning of a married
relationship and a divorce is one of the events that ends it.  Just as we
don't have 'widowed' relationships, there seems no reason to have a divorced
relationship either.

How long would a divorced relationship continue? Until one of the partners
re-marries or forever?"

I'm inclined to answer that question with forever.

I've probably been looking into this for a much shorter amount of time than
most the others on this list; that said please consider that in the early
nineteen hundreds, and maybe even before that (others may be able to comment
on that) Dutch marriage documents specify whether or not one is a widow,
widower, divorcée or divorcé when one enters a new marriage.

While I wonder if it is useful to start yet another discussion on this topic
on this mailing list, given that several have already preceded it, rather
than formally asking the developers of the software to consider a change
request, here is another way to look at it; a relationship of the type
marriage never ends, not even through divorce or death, which can therefore
be considered as events which merely change the nature of the relationship
and the software ought to be able to reflect that change through its
relationship types.

Regards, Jk.