I think divorced men also bore a stigma but not nearly as bad as women.
“Who remembers when divorced women bore a huge negative stigma? I do. (I am 51 BTW.) I am not saying it was right. But I have noticed the stigma seems to have disappeared.”
Actually, it still exists today, in many cultures. My wife (from halfway around the world) has a good number of female siblings (as in a lot) - all of them are still married to first husband.
Not all of the men are perfect, but the FIRST ONE that makes a grab for the money and the kids will bear a terrible stigma - so they all try to work things out. I now doubt any of their marriages will break up.
I likely would be like most of my friends, bitter and single, had a not met her - as I was not about to expose myself to getting cleaned out...not with the odds we now have regarding American Woman.
I'm your age and I agree with you completely. Hallmark even sells cards celebrating divorce.
My parents were middle-aged when they had me; there was no divorce on either side of the family. Unfortunately, it's common among my husband's family. It sounds naive, but I never personally experienced family divorce until my husband's sister's marriage broke up. It bothered me terribly. Everyone else was pretty much, "That's too bad, but it happens. Oh, well." I just couldn't get over the fact that the brother-in-law we were so close with was here, and then gone, never to be heard from again. It was almost like a death.