In a report in The Times (October 26), the newspaper reported what it called the first attempt at a debate on divorce in the House of Representatives, in the House Social Affairs Committee.

The way people are treated came out clear from The Times report. Adults are deemed incapable of making their own decisions regarding their life.

Adults able to get a divorce abroad, like a PN candidate for instance and a PL MP, have their divorce recognised by the Maltese state. What hypocrisy. The endless merry-go round continues.

Edwin Vassallo (PN) said that statistics abroad showed that divorce transformed marriage into a temporary contract. Marriage is a social union or legal contract between individuals.

It is the individuals' everyday experience within this union/contract that determines whether this contract is temporary or not.

No happily married couple with a marriage that is functioning files for separation or divorce.

In other European countries citizens are treated like adult individuals where everyone is responsible for the choices they make and above all they have and are given the liberty to choose.

Justyne Caruana, from the so-called progressive PL, said that opposition to divorce did not stem only from religion but also from the very consequences of divorce. Could she explain the difference between the consequences of legal separation and that of divorce? There are in fact none.

Divorce is a basic civil right. A right every citizen should have in a democratic country. It is up to every citizen to decide whether to make use of it or not. Whether to re-marry or not.

It is the state's responsibility to provide that protective legal space where individual citizens feel free to make that choice.