Replies

In my opinion, once divorce became acceptable, that opened the floodgates. Adlai Stevenson was divorced (his wife was insane), and that was a charge made against him. (Though even if Stevenson wasn’t divorced he still probably would have lost against Ike.) It is said that Ike didn’t divorce Mamie and marry Kay Sommersbye because in those days it would have ruined his career. Today, no one thinks divorcing one spouse to marry another is remarkable.

Accepting divorce is the camel’s nose under the tent flap. Now, people who complain that polygamy is the next step, accept leaders who have one wife, and then another wife, and then another wife, serially replacing a spouse with a younger and more attractive model. That is Not what is meant by marriage.

If the Republican Party wants to help restore morality to America, they need to start at home. Clean out the homosexuals and adulterers from their ranks. Try to find candidates who are not divorced, who are truly committed to family values. Reform starts at home.

In my opinion, once divorce became acceptable, that opened the floodgates.

I'm old enough to remember when being unwed and pregnant was shameful and unwed mothers were looked down upon. The men or boys who impregnated them deserved condemnation too but didn't get it.

In my high school, if a girl even got married she had to quit school. Now some public schools have day care for the children of students.

My daughter teaches at a public high school and a couple of years ago in one of her classes she had 3 pregnant 16 year old girls, one with her second child.

Where's the shame?

In the good old days before antibiotics a fantastic percentage of marriages ended prematurely. It was not unusual for a man to run through half a dozen wives. Or, vice versa.

I doubt the modern divorce rate can even begin to approach the rate of change wrought by just the maternal death rate alone.