tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post7456657948722342413..comments2024-03-29T10:10:40.315-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: All of Illinois is losing "custody."Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-45713515622597912372017-05-08T14:51:21.930-05:002017-05-08T14:51:21.930-05:00And divorce is more acceptable in the last generat...And divorce is more acceptable in the last generation, than it used to be.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-35635595917170349092017-05-08T14:43:10.676-05:002017-05-08T14:43:10.676-05:00The reasons are no doubt multiple, going beyond se...The reasons are no doubt multiple, going beyond sex. And going back some way, with the WW II mobilization of females into the workforce a factor. As Thurber put the matter some 60 years ago "everywhere man loses ground while woman advances. The dog seems to be holding its own."<br /><br />That said, a certain biological intervention did serve to give the ladies, if not the upper hand, at least more of a say in carnal matters. In Phillip Larkin's masterful, if somewhat rueful, exposition of the subject, it happened "in 1963 (which was rather late for me)"<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-14447021299969395802017-05-08T12:00:44.188-05:002017-05-08T12:00:44.188-05:00Your theory that divorces were high because people...Your theory that divorces were high because people were socially prohibited from having sex unless they entered into (sometimes unwise) marriages is interesting. I've always thought that the divorce rate peaked because women were more accepted in the workplace and could earn more money, thus freeing them from dependence on husbands they no longer wanted.<br /><br />Nearly all outrages against women, from (still) lower pay to restrictions on abortion to genital mutilation, are rooted in a desire to restrict and deny them the freedom to choose and reject potential mates IMO.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-59470135546129110292017-05-08T11:06:11.723-05:002017-05-08T11:06:11.723-05:00Having been tangentially involved in the divorce i...Having been tangentially involved in the divorce industry some years ago, I thoroughly enjoyed your exposition of the various viewpoints of the latest changes to Illinois divorce laws. Glad to hear that divorces are down, probably because marriages are not only later, but probably fewer. <br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-86519322274058058522017-05-08T09:30:16.128-05:002017-05-08T09:30:16.128-05:00Avoiding the topic might have been wise, as I find...Avoiding the topic might have been wise, as I find myself not much enlightened. But then I reside beyond the fray, having acquired my one and only wife some years ago and with no expectation of another. She evidently sensed at the outset that emending my considerable assemblage of bad habits would be the work of a lifetime and took on the assignment anyway.<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.com