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But how will this work in, say, LA or New York? A friend of mine in NYC had a lovely wife who divorced him after discovering his serial philandering. He said th
by sverige 10y ago
But how will this work in, say, LA or New York? A friend of mine in NYC had a lovely wife who divorced him after discovering his serial philandering. He said there were young women throwing themselves at him all the time. (He's wealthy.)
The stigma isn't as strong here as it is in China, either. And he ended up paying for the divorce.
On the other hand, she's not as well off financially as she had been. It was emotionally difficult for her as well, but the root of that problem was deeper than the symptom.
Not sure that this service would work here.
- wyclif 10y agoI doubt it would work in the US, too. Not only is the stigma against divorce now almost non-existent, we have no-fault divorce law. And people marry and divorce at a higher rate than ever before. It's easy come, easy go. And I would say that our system has a lot of bad effects, too: broken homes and single-parent childrearing are crippling our social structure.
- sgk284 10y agoThe divorce rate peaked in the 80s and has been declining ever since in the States. Here's the last 15 years, but can't find the full data set right now: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage_divorce_tables.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage_divorce_tables.htm
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- gakada 10y agoIt's amusing that these statistics are on the CDC website.
- mmmBacon 10y agoWhat's amusing about that? Divorce can be devastating to a person's physical and mental health as can many other social problems. So it seems logical to me that the CDC tracks this.
- lectrick 10y agoSimilar to Global Thermonuclear War in the movie WarGames, the only winning move may soon simply be not to play :O
- pookeh 10y agoYes but marriage rates have also been falling. No marriage no divorce.
- bryanlarsen 10y agoThe major alternative to divorce is dysfunctional families which is similarly crippling to children.
- brianwawok 10y agoHow about counseling? That is a pretty grim view.
- lectrick 10y agoEvidence? Also false dichotomy. We do not know the percentage of successful marriages with undiscovered affairs.