I can’t tell you all how many parents I have been acquainted with over the years (newly “single” and the vast majority female), most of them attractive and reasonably intelligent, who USED to have a “nice life” and are now totally screwed. They’re screwed because they did it to themselves. They, like CAR, thought that society and the law valued (or should value) their “soccer mom duties” enough to set them for life.
It doesn’t and they aren’t.
Some have moved back in with their (now elderly) parents. Not because their parents asked them to or necessarily needed their help but because they were desperate and had no choice if they wanted to remain in SD County to have regular contact with whatever children they had who were still minors.
