The fall of Rome and the fall of the West

"If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.” So proclaimed the Roman general, statesman, and censor Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, in 131 B.C. Still, he went on to plead, falling birthrates required that Roman men fulfill their duty to reproduce, no matter how irritating Roman women might have become. "Since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure."

The Romans had no fault divorce. In fact, one spouse could divorce the other without even having to inform the other of it.

Obviously, the solution was to abolish no fault divorce, but they were probably too hooked on being able to enjoy extramarital sex to bother with reforming the law as regards marriage.

It had to be left to Islam to make marriage a contract and divorce a breach of that marriage contract.

The fall of Rome has many reasons attributed to it. Constantine thought he could save Rome by converting to Christianity. I like to think he would have converted to Islam if he had had that option, but when Rome fell, Muhammad was not yet born.

We do not have the same excuse.