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To: HairOfTheDog
You didn't answer my question; you demurred. You know it's true.

264 posted on 11/27/2007 6:52:00 AM PST by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: William Terrell

Current laws certainly benefit women more than the old laws, where women didn’t actually own anything and there was no enforcement of child support at all, yes.

Now women actually own property in the marriage and have rights... they’re ~gasp~ full citizens.

No one likes divorce but I don’t see adding blame as fixing anything, and I don’t support going back to the old days, no. You’re not going to get this cat back in the bag that easy. Divorce is more common now because societal views on it have changed, not because anyone views it as a walk in the park. You’re wanting to ban the egg, but the root cause is the chickens. Unless and until more people take their vows more seriously, not just skimming over the ‘for worse’ part, they’ll continue to divorce when they don’t like being married anymore. Americans are stubborn, we don’t like being told what to do, men or women, up to and including staying with someone who bores, annoys or irritates us. Americans are spoiled, and we don’t think we need to stay and work through and bear a little boredom and annoyance. Fix THAT. Make people take their vows more seriously, and you’ll have a fix... a better fix than requiring couples to show up for the mandated mud slinging in court. Because they’ll do it, they just won’t be better for it.

Propose what you’d like to do and how it will help.


267 posted on 11/27/2007 7:05:05 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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