This could be true but there are other sides to the story sometimes.
One of my nieces got married just after turning 17 when she got pregnant. She married the father, but it didn’t work out. He couldn’t hold a job, drank and smoked pot heavily and was cheating on her to boot and she got a quicky divorce.
I guess you could call it a re-bound, but she reconnected with a young soldier who she’d know in HS and “fell in love” almost immediately and eloped with him. She left her daughter with her parents while she got settled with her new husband who had just been stationed at a base in South Carolina.
She found that base housing was terrible, and she felt isolated, he disconnected and took their phone when he wasn’t home so she couldn’t call anyone, she had no transportation, no money except the few dollars he gave her for groceries at the commissary, and it didn’t take long before he was beating her; beating her for not keeping the apartment clean to his satisfaction, for not cooking to his liking and sometimes according to her, beating her for no reason at all.
She met another military wife who after seeing her black eye and bruises, got her in touch with a counselor on base. It turns out her new husband was on the verge of being booted from the military with a dishonorable discharge for his numerous disciplinary problems.
The military paid for her airfare to go back home to PA to her family. She got an annulment.
She made many bad decisions by the age of 20 but she didn’t deserve to be beaten.
“She found that base housing was terrible, and she felt isolated, he disconnected and took their phone when he wasn’t home so she couldn’t call anyone, she had no transportation, no money except the few dollars he gave her for groceries at the commissary, and it didn’t take long before he was beating her; beating her for not keeping the apartment clean to his satisfaction, for not cooking to his liking and sometimes according to her, beating her for no reason at all.”
And there are many male FReepers who believe that she should have stayed with him. They disparage women because they account for (allegedly) 70% of people who file for divorce.