Originally Posted by Meyou:
I'm not too fond of the way they lump single parents and unmarried parents together. Considering not all couple have the right to marry it's not exactly an accurate or politically correct category IMO.
There are thousands or perhaps millions of people that chose not to get married for religious or financial or political reasons but according to this study they're all single parents and included in their statistics. Meh, that just doesn't sit well with me.
While I agree that the the state of the family unit has declined and that affects children greatly I cannot agree that women or children were better off 50 years ago when 1/3 of all marriages were forced because of an unplanned pregnancy. It seems to me that the "happy family" of 50 years ago was perhaps not so happy as we think but just better at faking it.
Could not agree more! Especially the bolded. My grandparents were "happily" married to anyone looking at them. However he was a philanderer and an absentee husband and father. My grandmother raised SIX kids on her own in a miserable marriage because it wasn't an option to leave back then. She had less rights than he did and there was no alimony or child support.
So when my aunt's husband started up with that noise, my grandmother was her number one supporter. She said to my aunt, "It's better to be alone and happy than to live with what could be."