Reading Caitlin Flanagan's Time magazine cover story (7/2/09) on the "increasingly fragile construct" of marriage–which claims that "the divorce culture became a fact of life" over "the past 2½ decades"–one would never guess that U.S. divorce rates have actually dropped by almost a third since 1992, from 4.8 per thousand people to 3.5.
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[...] blogging at Double X (7/2/09), Linda Hirshman takes on a Time magazine "cover story by working mother-scourge Caitlin Flanagan" that uses "the occasion of South Carolina Governor Mark [...]
There are two issues here. One is that fewer low and middle income Americans bother with marriage, leading to fewer divorces. The other is that among the propertied elites, marriage is still the way wealth is transferred to the next generation, and therefore divorce is disproportionately becoming an upper class thing.
When she wrote this article she kept going on about cheating on your spouse. My soon to be ex spouse
wanted me to cheat on him. He forced me to have affairs then ran to my family and whined to keep my
sanity I walked out I was forced to leave my children with him the courts said he is the better parent because he didnt work to jobs to support our family I did its not always the fathers who leave or are forced to leave. It happens to mothers to she should have researched that side of it. Cheating is not always what it seems. Theres always underlying issuses and the politians that have admitted on T.V. need to think about that
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