Columnist: Stop pressuring wronged wives to divorce.

Maggie Gallagher came out with one of those observations that has been vaguely bothering me for years, but which I probably couldn't have articulated in a million years, in her column today, "SPITZER, STOP TORTURING THE WIFE" --

"Can we end the public practice of trying to shame these wives into divorcing their husbands?  There's a reason we feel impelled to do this these days. ... Because we no longer have any public punishments for adultery, we have turned wives into instruments of the public morality; if she doesn't punish him by divorcing him, he will go unpunished, which is intolerable.  (Without some punishment, won't all husbands stray?) I'm tired of this transference of the sins of the husband onto the wife. Leave the wives alone."