Posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:32 PM PST by chance33_98
A North Carolina woman is $2 million richer after winning a lawsuit against her husband's mistress. She sued under the state's alien of affection law. The woman testified that the other woman infiltrated her family and demanded retribution. The judge agreed. "Well, of course I think it takes two to tango," said Christine Cooper, the sued husband's girlfriend. Some legal experts have questioned the constitutionality of the law, calling it an opportunity to get revenge on a spouse. The ruling is the most money ever awarded under the law. News 2 at 4:30
11.13.01
Ah, but there's the rub. It is a legally binding covenant not only in the eyes of the state, but more importantly in the eyes of God Almighty. Last time I read the Bible(of which most marriages are done either in a synagogue or church, so therefore the people getting married are accepting their vows as binding in the eyes of both) it doesn't say "Well when you've grown apart and aren't happy, that's okay!!"
With all of this baggage that these two are causing in the lives of this wife and kids, then NOT JUST the cheating husband should be required to pay. The cheating mistress should also be held accountable for disrupting the lives of others.Let me ask you this. If the spouse is a total F'n bitch, then why should the other spouse not be allowed to find his/her consolation elsewhere? Your claim that the one spouse cheats infers that he/she is a self-centered scumbag. The truth may in fact be that the other spouse is such a scum/bitch/bastard that it leaves them no choice. DO NOT say that the correct choice is divorce, because the same "poverty" that you seem to think is so heinous to befall one spouse, is the same poverty that a spouse wanting to leave a rotten partner will face if he/she pursues a legitimate end to the relationship.
Since the ease of divorce and lack of reprecussions for marital misconduct has become the norm in this country:
1. The divorce rate has sky-rocketed,
2. The number of one-parent families has sky-rocketed,
3. The amount of public aid to children has sky-rocketed,
4. The State and Federal programs to assist these families have sky-rocketed,
5. The number of family counselors anf therapists have sky-rocketed,
6. The number of lawyers and judges required to sort the mess out have sky-rocketed,
7. The crime rate among young people has sky-rocketed.
Not bad for a simple little affair of the heaart. I wonder what happened to personal responsibility and commitment. I thought those were supposed to be conservative values.
I am not proposing that divorce be eliminated, only that marriage and family be encouraged.
When a spouse wants a divorce because they are unable to get along with the other spouse, do they have to get a girlfriend or boyfriend first?
I don't know that I would wish Leona Helmsly on anyone! lol
So? Why do you care? As long as you are happy, why must you be concerned with other people's business?
2. The number of one-parent families has sky-rocketed,Again, So?
3. The amount of public aid to children has sky-rocketed,
4. The State and Federal programs to assist these families have sky-rocketed,
Stop electing these money hungry/power crazed weasels to office. Eliminate aid/entitlements period.
5. The number of family counselors anf therapists have sky-rocketed,
Therapy and sorting out one's feelings is a bad thing....umm..okay.
6. The number of lawyers and judges required to sort the mess out have sky-rocketed,
An unintended consequence of people having dynamic feelings instead of static ones.
7. The crime rate among young people has sky-rocketed.
I would like to see the statistics you used to directly correllate alienation of affection and youth crime rates.
That's got MY vote. Let's take on appointed judges while we are at it,too. Who the hell died and made judges God,where they actually have the power to put you in jail for not respecting them? Respect is a thing that is earned,not mandated.
Yeah, it's true that some spouses are hard to get along with. Part of me actually believes that folks who choose that poorly should be required to spend 10 years imprisoned with the creep just to make them think about what marriage is all about.
I don't have a lot of sympathy for those who have kids, though. These immature "adults" who cheat, connive, choose poorly, run around, etc. then dump their wasteland all over the rest of society should pay through the nose. Their kids have incredibly high rates of costly anti-social behavior.
And then we have to pay the costs for these scumbags...both of them...so I'm not sympathetic toward either. They should keep their mouths shut, do their duty, raise their kids, and then when the kids are out of the house, if they still haven't managed to grow up, then they can divorce.
But a cheating partner should have to pay as should the partner of their fling. I could care less if they're starved for LUUUUVV.
You are a world-class fool who sounds like someone with the life-experience of a 15 year old who lives in his bedroom.
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