You're really old, so tell me. Do you remember a time when divorce was frowned upon by society? People were ashamed to be divorced. Do you remember when an illegitimate child was called a bastard? When teen daughters who got pregnant were shipped off to Aunt Sally's in North Dakota to save the family's honor?
Those were all examples of "public shaming." People avoided those behaviors, partly to avoid public shaming.
This is what I'm talking about when I say public shaming. It's a thing, and a valuable tool to enforce the civil code.
Today, in large part, there is no shame for these behaviors. In fact, it is celebrated. High schools now have special rooms for "teen moms" to bring their kids. Single mothers are heroes. Chicks like in this article under discussion are written about in magazines as good examples.
This can all be lain at the feet of modern feminism.
You can ask for a return to rules, manners, civility, morality and yes, those are important. But the way those are enforced is by actual action, not disregard. Public shaming is part of that enforcement.
And as for a return to actual parenting. Over half the population of todays youth are products of a broken home or being raised by single mothers. Parenting suffers and we have generations of broken people because of it. The reasons for these broken homes can also be lain at the feet of feminism, as I've described previously.
So, I repeat.
Feminism is cancer.
Of course I remember when some knocked up kid, whose sperm donor would or couldn't marry her, was sent off to have the baby in an UNWED MOTHER'S HOME. Being shipped off to Europe or to some far away relative's, or to Japan, to have an abortion, or even *gasp* to an illegal abortionist here, was what was done. That really wasn't all THAT long ago, in the scheme of things.
No, I'm not my own great grandmother...divorce wasn't thought of as something "good", but even back in the 1920s, it wasn't something to be "shamed" for. People got divorced for all kinds of different reasons, even back when it was something quite difficult to do, but it was much more rare.
So, diddums, was it your wife who divorced YOU ? Did she have cause? Not that I think that even if YOU were in the wrong/the reason, that you will admi8t to that. *snicker*
I still call a spade a spade ( I hate PC and refused to give in to it! ), so of course I call the child of an unwed mother a "bastard"; that's what that child is! Want me to go back to Medieval times and use their euphemism..."BORN ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BLANKET" ?
You don't understand the meaning of the term : "PUBLIC SHAMING"!
Do you know what the term "sent to Coventry" means? If not...look it up!
Now THAT really was PUBLIC SHAMING, as was putting people into stocks, in a public square!
Having rules on how to behave in a civil society, is what works! Oh it's not perfect; nothing was/is, but it worked just fine for the vast majority.
And that's WHY the stinking Commies and their stupid tools worked overtime, back in the '60s and early '70s to tear down all of these rules! And just WHY so many stupid parents, at that time, either just turned a blind eye to what their kids did/were allowed to do, is beyond me and sadly, it is even worse today!
Oh good grief...you can repost the same old damn stupid thing 100 trillion times, but it is NOT going to make it true! All that it does is to keep making you look like a mordant idiot.
Just tell the truth, for a change...you truly don't want us to be your "friends" any more than either of us would want to be in the same state wherein you are; let alone share any space with you. The later would be akin to the play NO EXIT, with which, I'm positive, you've never even heard of, let alone know what it's about.
And as far as "returning" to what once was the norm, the pendulum always swings and so, perhaps not in my lifetime, but most assuredly at some time in the future, yes, societies shall go back to such things as behavior rules that disallow sleeping around, shaking-up, unwed births, etc.! Perhaps, in all of Europe, it'll be because the damned Muslims take completely over and install Sharia law for all, or something else happens.
Are you saying that ONLY married women seek divorces, that NO men do?