Quote: I have personal experience where the broken home is sometimes better than that same home being whole. I think marriage is take too lightly these days and people tend to opt out rather than fix whats broken and communicate their issues and compromise. That being said it is better to separate than constantly bicker and argue in front of the children. Sometimes differences can't be settled but this probably should have been given time to surface before procreation.
Absolutely. Staying together when you revile each other is a sure way to screw up your kids forever. A bit of irony, my three siblings are conservative republicans who like to espouse 'traditional family values' (which I've come to realize means 'what is best for affluent white people'). Between them they have had seven spouses. Me, I'm just a live and let live liberal guy. I've been married once and have stayed that way for 26 years.
Btw Chet, ya know you may be right there...well, you AND Ian here, anyway.
Ya see, I was just lookin' at THIS chart here(sorry Ian, I know how much you hate statistics)...
...and I got to thinkin' how "The Greatest Generation"(that would be the WWII generation, of course) tended to keep their marriage vows intact(regardless here of what "region" we're talkin' about, and so we certainly can't make this a "political thing" at all), and THEN if you look at us "Boomers" and the "Gen-X"s ability to stay together, well, WE'VE really screwed THAT UP.
And so, the ONLY "logical" explanation here is that because the "The Greatest Generation" tended to stay together(like my Mom and Dad did), THEN, like you and Ian were sayin', they must have REALLY screwed up OUR minds in the process!!!!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
