Posted on 05/12/2025 6:06:46 AM PDT by karpov
Divorce can be a good thing if it means getting the bad actor out and away from children.
The household income will rise in many instances with free housing and healthcare. Even with free breakfasts and lunches at school, SNAP thinks it takes 3 times more to feed recipients than this kitchen’s food budget. And that isn’t including a free phone, free internet, discounted utilities, blah, blah, blah that comes from being on SNAP or the free breakfasts and lunches at school.
The person who breaks the marriage vows, behaves abusively towards his or her spouse, and/or refuses to to to counseling or make necessary changes.
After that, there is no significance to which partner actually files for divorce.
Sounds like you believe there was no motivating factor from the behavior of the men folk, doesn’t it?
Women protecting self or children from higher incidence of abuse or addiction from men skews the statistic of who files for divorce. Divorce is not a sex-linked phenomenon; it’s a behavior-linked phenomenon.
” bad actor”
Yes that is true and I knew someone who was much better off divorced. Her husband had threatened to harm the kids. Yes she filed for divorce. I guess according to some the divorce was her fault.
I agree the government encourages fatherless children with money. Unfortunately for the kids they need Dad a whole lot more than free lunches.
Not quite; that is, not that there was “no” motivating factor. Only that in many cases, that factor was (for more women than men) just ‘falling out of love’, and wanting ‘a new start in life’ vs. the need to protect one’s self or children. Just my experience and observations. Your point, though, about men being more likely to be violent addicts, is a valid one.
And I certainly agree that this younger generation of women are shameless about ruining a man they are done with—entirely with the help of the courts in many states. It’s wicked.
All people have to realize that sex is like a loaded gun. You need to be trained and disciplined to know how to use it properly, because it is a matter of life, grave injury or death.
Excellent point on the subject of sex— people used to respect its power to permanently change lives for both the better and the worse. As one who played fast and loose with it, I can attest to the high cost of not properly respecting that power. I think it used to be called “sin”, or something like that...
Yup—I was engaged when I was in my twenties and she broke it off before the marriage could happen.
I was totally heartbroken.
In retrospect she did me a huge favor.
(She got married to someone else a year later. Then she got divorced from him two years after that. Lol.)
And also “shame.” The ’60s ruined this country.
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