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As I was reading the posts, I noticed some things were said about "If parents raised their kids right" -
Is that to say that if parents did their job then these kids wouldn't get into trouble? They would know the difference of right and wrong - and if they don't act like they do - then the parents messed up?
I think that is crazy (on a certain level). My parents have been married for over 42 years. They are very much in love and show it. They are a wonderful example of what a marriage looks like. As individuals, they are also great examples of what a good person, living a good, clean life looks like. I am very blessed to have the examples that I do.
Saying that - I, as well as my siblings, have gotten into trouble in the past. We have tried drugs, alcohol, etc. I skipped school as a teen, was rebelious.
My brother is divorced.
Did my parents not do their job?
I am a parent now. I am trying to do my very best everyday. When my child is old enough to make decisions for herself, I hope she makes the right ones. If she doesn't - have I failed? I hope not.
I think saying "parents should do their job" is a cop out.
I find it simply divine that so many posters spend all their energy trying to find methods of dealing with divorce rather than how to end divorce…just as people who try to find methods like welfare to deal with poverty, rather than trying to end poverty.
I know - we can end divorce by not allowing marriage.
Our "war on.." drugs or poverty or intolerance or a war to end all wars or insert human flaw here ______ is going so well.
I find it simply divine that so many posters spend all their energy trying to find methods of dealing with divorce rather than how to end divorce…just as people who try to find methods like welfare to deal with poverty, rather than trying to end poverty.
You still haven't answered MY question back to you: How would making divorce illegal actually fix things?
You still haven't answered MY question back to you: How would making divorce illegal actually fix things?
To answer my original question in the OP- no! A ban on all divorces would not change the social decay in America, nor would making it harder to obtain be the solution to all our societal woes?
But what might lower the over 50% marriages that end in divorce would be such things as making marriages harder to obtain, not to end.
Forget the marriage counseling just before divorce and make it mandatory before marriage, higher ages of consent, require a marriage license, and then a waiting period before the ceremony, close drive-through "chapels-o-love", It almost seems obvious that the solution is to make marriages harder to obtain, not to end. Statistics support this claim too: the younger the couple was when they married, the more likely they are to divorce.
make it mandatory before marriage, higher ages of consent, require a marriage license, and then a waiting period before the ceremony, close drive-through "chapels-o-love", It almost seems obvious that the solution is to make marriages harder to obtain, not to end. Statistics support this claim too: the younger the couple was when they married, the more likely they are to divorce.
You should be commended for trying, but I think your logic here is a bit flawed.
If you make it harder to “marry”, that doesn’t solve anything.
So perhaps my gf and I won’t marry. Instead we will just live together, have kids together. 15 years from now when we separate, we aren’t divorcing, because we never married. Yet, how is that any difference since our kids now have their parents living apart?
If my gf and I marry and in 5 years divorce, and we have no kids, who are we hurting by getting a divorce?
The real problems is when 2 people (whether married or just living together), break up, and they share kids together…that is what hurts society far more than 2 people with no kids who divorce.
If my gf and I marry and in 5 years divorce, and we have no kids, who are we hurting by getting a divorce?
The real problems is when 2 people (whether married or just living together), break up, and they share kids together…that is what hurts society far more than 2 people with no kids who divorce.
Ohhh Captain, you just go ahead an do what-ever it is you people do, and don’t fret none over this.
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