Posted on 05/06/2010 6:44:04 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
No-fault divorces have (as predicted) scarred millions of children across the West. But don’t expect radical feminists and adults-only libertarians to say sorry. They’re never wrong. Or as Barbara Dafoe Whitehead put it in The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitments to Marriage and Family, “A culture of divorce soothes children with antidepressants, consoles them with storybooks on divorce, and watches over their lives from family court.”
One serious problem: “Our contemporary secular thinking about marriage is a blend of psychotherapy and politics, and its language is one of rights and needs.”
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Wow, that is insane, just rip your kids heart out and be done with it
Radical feminism has done more to destroy our culture than any other problem
I already did say that I had the opposite experience, and maybe you should pay attention, as he started attacking me first.
Yes, some Leftists have been very open about that too.
I like the term “must-self-actualize-myself divorces.” It hits the nail on the head.
Don’t get me started on lawyers! (LOL)
You are right. Marx did hate the Christian family. What’s more, when Red Russia opened up for business they endorsed anti-family parades down the streets, and were very pro-divorce.
Liberal birds of a feather…
Sometimes the woman is to blame - sometimes the man. Many studies have rejected the myth that most married men are cheaters. That’s a bit harsh. It is shacking up that promotes cheating, according to the research I’ve read.
Please tell me you don’t have any children. There’s nothing more frightening than a parent who believes that the death of his or her kids would be the best thing that can happen to them and would be a “gift from heaven”.
I am glad you think it is meaningless. You can ignore it if it makes you feel better. The proof is in the pudding. ;0)
I agree the impact of no-fault divorce has been terrible, especially on children, but as a practical matter I don’t see the usefulness of forcing two people to remain married when at least one of them doesn’t want to.
And while some consider no fault divorce a new phenomenon, the fact is, old Jewish law had no-fault divorce, though to be fair only the husband can exercise it. The concept has a several thousand year tradition. It’s not honest to lay this at the feet of feminists (though clearly, they and their leftist cohorts exploit the policy for their own political ends).
Don’t worry. I don’t have any children and never will. The future of every child alive today is more horrible than most can imagine. Can you see it? It is inescapable. Nobody can save them now.
What does the Bible say about that “old Jewish law”? I seem to remember something about divorce being allowed because of the hardness of people’s hearts.
Most divorces are initiated by women these day. In the past it was men who would initiate divorce. Yet another wonderful gift from feminism. A wife can feel out of sorts or that she can do better so she starts the divorce knowing she holds all the good cards. The more children the more good cards. Ex-husband= former sperm donor and present day gold mine
55% of today’s law school grads are women so this can only get worse
The man sometimes then decides to go outside marriage for sex. The wife immediately starts telling her friends about her mean old husband's cheating. The friends start watching the husband so they can help the poor wife. If the husband is caught, the dear distressed wife will file for divorce. I had that pulled on me. It really blew my ex’s mind when she discovered I wasn't unfaithful.
I thought this was common knowledge for anyone even casually familiar with comparative religions, but I suppose not.
You can read about Jewish law’s thousands of years tradition regarding no-faulkt divorce here:
http://www.jewfaq.org/divorce.htm
I have very little interest in “Jewish Law” outside of what is my Bible. I am very interested in what it says.
My point was only that no fault divorce has a tradition longer than dating back to the 1960s, and can’t be laid at the feet of the feminists and their 1960s antics, though they certainly took advantage of it, for the worse.
Whether you are interested in the several thousand year Jewish tradition of no-fault divorce isn’t relevant, really. It’s still true whether you are interested in it or not.
So, What should it mean to me if my Bible says divorce was allowed because of the hardness of men’s heart (old Jewish law). It was never meant to be that way. For some odd reason, I believe God’s Law predates any man made law.
Again, my point was only that no-fault divorce has a thousands year long tradition, and isn’t something relatively new.
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