Orthodox Church Proposes Stalin-Era Divorce Rules

The Russian Orthodox Church proposed reviving Soviet-era measures to reduce divorces, including reinstating complex divorce procedures and economic disincentives, citing a 1944 USSR decree as a model.

Consensus

The Russian Orthodox Church proposed using Soviet-era methods to reduce divorces.
The proposal was made during the Eastern Economic Forum.
The speaker was Fedor Lukyanov, head of the Patriarchal Commission on Family, Motherhood, and Childhood.
The proposal included making divorce economically and administratively difficult.
The 1944 USSR Decree (Decree No. 118) was cited as a historical model.
The decree previously required court approval for divorce, introduced a 'family status' field in passports, and implemented progressive income taxation based on number of children.
Abortion was restricted to medical reasons under the 1944 decree.
The Church emphasized that both abortion and divorce should be economically disadvantageous.

Points of divergence

The proposal included introducing a 'marital capital' payment that increases with years of marriage, and allowing mortgage debt to be partially or fully forgiven for families with four or five children. — riamo
The Church also called for aborations to be marginalized and removed from private clinics, and for state and business to jointly ensure economic disincentives for divorce and abortion. — tg_agentstvonews

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In the Russian Orthodox Church, methods of Stalin's are proposed for fighting divorces in Russia — РИАМО
In the Russian Orthodox Church, Stalinist methods for fighting divorces have been proposed — Агентство. Новости

Orthodox Church Proposes Stalin-Era Divorce Rules

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