Is There “A Divorce Is Evil” Culture?

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Clarissa

July 26, 2013

OMG, this is getting really bizarre. I have never seen such a collection of completely idiotic posts as the one that has been provoked by the Weiner scandal. They just come one after another in an unrelenting flow of complete and utter idiocy:

One thing I find a bit weird in our DIVORCE IS EVIL CULTURE is how quick we are, as a culture, to think that a spouse sticking with cad of whatever type is somehow doing it wrong.

Capital letters, no less. In the meanwhile, 62% of all marriages end in divorce in this country, but who cares as long as a blogger has a strawman to pursue?

What is it about photos of an ageing politician’s lonely penis that makes people lose the last shreds of rationality?

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4 responses to “Is There “A Divorce Is Evil” Culture?”

David Bellamy

July 26, 2013

There is most definitely a “divorce is evil” culture. Divorce was held up to me as a fate worse than death all through my childhood and adolescence. Only people who were lacking in character got divorced. Since I an both of my brothers have been divorced at least once, we were told in no uncertain terms that we were just not willing to do the necessary work to save our marriage(s).

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anon

July 26, 2013

Meh, probably in some communities. It’s certainly not widespread in my liberal and upper-middle class circles. Maybe in very religious communities?

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Evelina Anville

July 26, 2013

I tend to agree that there is a fairly strong anti divorce sentiment in this country–despite the high divorce rate. I do know a fair amount of people who have been divorced but they all speak of it as a personal failure and as a great tragedy. I’m sure divorce is very sad and traumatic but the level of tragedy and embarrassment that people attach to divorce always surprises me. So I think the writer of the OP may be on to something. I wouldn’t call it a “divorce is evil” culture but there is certainly a stigma attached to it.

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  July 26, 2013
  
  I have to say that people in this country tend to overdramatize everything, so I don’t pay much attention to their performance of divorce misery.
  
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