For every independent successful woman there are 100k single parent trailer queens. And all of them hit 40 looking around to find the married family women are the ones with the wealth.
Wealth is not what's on the table. It's what's around the table.
Divorce not only destroys families, it unconsolidates wealth. Someone is expected to finance two households, and discretionary spending, sometimes even survival money, is cut short as a result.
Making divorce easy, meant people were not as careful about who they married in the first place. Aside from property settlements, custody, and alimony/support, a do-over was easy to get. Of course, no one factored in the economic strain or human costs of that.