True. However, the fact that single mothers constitute a disproportionate number of people living at/below the poverty level makes me think that single/divorced women with children suffer financially compared to women without children. Whether we’re discussing divorce OR lack of marriage — as some are advocating here, the end result is the same.
Question: would you have preferred that your parents divorce, or have them work on developing a better marriage and staying married?
I guess I see more options that just “stay married and miserable” or divorce. Not to get too personal, but our relationship/marriage SUCKED for the first couple of years. We worked very hard on changing the way we related to and treated each other (via an exceptionally good counselor in San Clemente), and ten years and three kids later, we have one of the best marriages we’ve ever known. It truly exceeds anything either one of us could have hoped for. In other words, just because a marriage seems very bad, does not mean that it can’t be turned around. I firmly believe we are taught to give up too soon, especially when kids are involved.
