[I_Love_My_Husband]

Ok, I see what you're saying. You're talking about schooling. I'm talking about real mental institutions.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Well if a husband has to perform the way many here demand, there will be a lot more women whose husbands take their kids away. If the wife gets depressed, perhaps is often grouchy, ever shows any emotional irrationality, then obviously he must either lock her out of the house or take the kids to their grandparents. Hey, there is always the possibility that she could go crazy and kill the kids(even if its only 1 in a million, who wants to take the chance?) She might get PMS psychosis, can't take chances, no room for judgement.

And c'mon, we all know that most women can get emotional, how stupid of men not to realize then that most women are thus capable of murdering their kids(using the logic displayed on this thread). Obviously trying to save the family unit, trying to work through a problem and heal, instead of bolting at the first sign of trouble is really just selfishness on the man's part("...for better or for worse...", how dangerously simplistic and unrealistic.) Might hasty overreaction do horrible damage to her and the family? Absolutely, but hey, it is 'for the children'.

I guess to some here it is better to psychologically drown the children than to 'put them at risk'.