Failure to help with the kids and the dishes could soon be grounds for divorce in Colombia, if a proposed law gets passed.
”Men treat women like slaves who wash the dishes while they relax,” said Senator Carlos Moreno de Caro, the Bill’s author.
”This injustice has to end.”
The Bill, which will be up for debate in the congressional session starting on Wednesday, would enable either spouse to accuse the other of domestic sloth.
But the text states that cooking, cleaning, and caring for the kids cannot be considered solely the woman’s responsibility.
”Starting now it will be cause for divorce if the husband does not help with the domestic work,” the lawmaker said.
Colombia, which legalised divorce in 1974, approved a law last June to simplify the procedure for separations, which can now be formalised by mutual consent of the parties before a notary public. – Sapa-AFP