Divorce - Britney & K-Fed style
Greg of Crowhill Manor makes some excellent points about divorce. As usual, he is concise and right on target.
I would propose an amendment to his solution: if the spouse walking away from the marriage without reason is the primary income source, he or she should pay through the nose for the "privilege" of walking away. Similarly, if the spouse walking away without cause is not the primary income earner, he or she should not be rewarded with monetary payments.
I'm amazed that the religious right is so worked up about gay marriage, and yet Christians and the Church in general treat heterosexual marriage and divorce so cavalierly. You want to protect marriage in America? Begin with reforming your attitude about divorce. I'm against gay marriage because it's a spiritual slap in the face of God who ordained marriage to be between a man and a woman. But gay marriage is a piddling threat to society compared to what rampant divorce and remarriage has done in the last 30 years.
There is now no shame associated with divorce, and celebrity marriages and divorces illustrate that all too well. Britney is barely an adult, and yet she's already married and divorced twice, and now she's depriving her very, very young children of a full-time relationship with their father. He may be a slob, but she's no princess either. Selfish. Immature. Disgusting. And it's the children who ultimately suffer.
I would propose an amendment to his solution: if the spouse walking away from the marriage without reason is the primary income source, he or she should pay through the nose for the "privilege" of walking away. Similarly, if the spouse walking away without cause is not the primary income earner, he or she should not be rewarded with monetary payments.
I'm amazed that the religious right is so worked up about gay marriage, and yet Christians and the Church in general treat heterosexual marriage and divorce so cavalierly. You want to protect marriage in America? Begin with reforming your attitude about divorce. I'm against gay marriage because it's a spiritual slap in the face of God who ordained marriage to be between a man and a woman. But gay marriage is a piddling threat to society compared to what rampant divorce and remarriage has done in the last 30 years.
There is now no shame associated with divorce, and celebrity marriages and divorces illustrate that all too well. Britney is barely an adult, and yet she's already married and divorced twice, and now she's depriving her very, very young children of a full-time relationship with their father. He may be a slob, but she's no princess either. Selfish. Immature. Disgusting. And it's the children who ultimately suffer.
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