Posted on 01/08/2006 2:24:03 PM PST by Lorianne
Who post-dumping went from being a Conservative commentatrix to a far-Left Liberal one.
Oh yes I can.
I would imagine that by age 67, the lady's children have left the house....just wanted to remind every-one of that point!
You ARE blessed, LOL! All the way around. We have one that just started college this year.
The lack of excess children helps greatly to speed up our retirement date. ;) I want grandkids, too...but I'm willing to wait another decade if need be.
**I would imagine that by age 67, the lady's children have left the house....just wanted to remind every-one of that point!**
What does this point mean to you in relation to the woman in the story whose husband abandoned her at age 67?
Why? Maybe she just wants to earn some money?
"the judge in her divorce case suggested that - at 67 - she go for job training"
I think that she has much better chance to make money by writting a book than after some silly "job training" for 67 year old housewives!
And I don't agree that it was economics that gives so many women no choice in raising their kids for the need of two incomes
Few people want to take a "standard of living" hit, even if it means not having a stay at home mom. Most people really do want the "typical" middleclass life, which equals a house, two cars, a couple of kids and a vacation every year. These things are deceptively expensive. A lot of people also want a hedge in case of job loss or divorce.
From what I can see, the feminists kinda rode this trend. No social movement, no matter how zany or well-meaning, can exist without larger economic need for it.
**From what I can see, the feminists kinda rode this trend. No social movement, no matter how zany or well-meaning, can exist without larger economic need for it.**
So, what is the economic need that led to more females than males in college today? What economic need was fulfilled by the feminist demands that led to blantant discrimination against boys and men in education and employment when many of the perferred women will work part time or no time while they raise their children and be dependent upon the men who are not in college or who were denied jobs because of quotas? I'm curious about that.
The addition of one child with special needs can really delay retirement. That's what happened with us. Twins on the 2nd pregnancy, and one has brain damage.
Oh well! At least God has given us the means to provide for her even if it means delaying retirement.
"Betty Friedan did not destroy marriage. The vaccuum cleaner and frozen foods did."
I think the birth control pill did.
"At least God has given us the means to provide for her even if it means delaying retirement."
He's great that way, isn't he? :) Sorry to hear of your misfortune. It can happen to any of us at any time. That's why I have my 55 and 62 and 65 retirement scenarios. ;)
"I'll work as long as i'm phywically able which I hope is at leasr until i'm 80, I do construction work."
Hee hee!
For a second there I thought you were going to tell us that you hunt bunny wabbits!
I don't know what the college thing is about other than to say many of the parents of young women I know are anxious to get their girls into college to:
A)Find a suitable husband.
B)Develope some marketable skills in case the husband doesn't materialize immediately or chooses to de-materialize at some point down the road.
As far as employment goes, I know that employers like women because:
A)You can pay them less than a guy in management positions
B)They leave to have kids before they become inconvenient.
Women must be prepared for the real world...HER HUSBAND LEFT HER FOR A YOUNGER WOMAN, you have no compassion for her?
Posters were boohooing the divorce and abandonment of a 67 year woman and her 5 children...at least in the way they were histrionically portraying this story. Now I think its crummy for this man to have divorced his wife of 40 years, but I don't think she has the added burden of 5 children any-more.
But who knows I could be wrong....
Oh I didn't say it was okay for the husband to do what he did, but I doubt the woman involved will become a bag lady
living on the street. There is more to this story but we'll never get the whole of it!
I didn't notice anyone claiming she still has five children to support. I think what people notice here is that he used her as his housewife to raise his kids and then kicked her to the crub at age 67 for a younger model wife.
On top of that disgusting action, we have an idiot judge who, instead of justifibly putting the cad in the poor house for abandoning his wife in this way with alimony, he suggests the old lady take up job training and support herself. Some people respect women who sacrificed their income earning potential to raise their own kids and don't think they should be mistreated by grossly immoral men or in the legal system like this elderly lady was.
That is what this thread is about to most people.
Perhaps it was in how some of the posters were linking the 5 kids being raised in the same present tense as the divorce....that was what I was responding to...again I think it is crummy what happened to her...I doubt though she'll be homeless living on the street.
I wish she would get another lawyer and have the terms of the divorce reviewed on some type of appelate basis...she may deserve more than she got.
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