Sons of Divorce Fare Worse Than Daughters: "A new study reports that men whose parents divorced before they were 18 are two to three times as likely to seriously consider taking their own lives as men whose parents were not divorced by that age."

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-03-02T23:56:11+00:00

I hope my kid gets married (if not literally then adjectively), and I hope he doesn't get divorced. As well as fear of marriage boys will get if they see a divorce, they need a relationship with their dad to be psychologically healthy. (Or are rarely healthy without one).

Every time I drop my son of at nursery, I see one boy who looks really depressed. He calls one of the carers there mama (she isn't). He's there morning to evening 5 days a week. There is a girl doing the same shift but she doesn't seem nearly as depressed, I imagine it's because all the carers there are women. It's damned depressing to see.

AnUnknown · 2012-03-03T01:05:31+00:00

As one of those children, I do feel the need to point out that correlation is not necessarily causation. The article itself refers to the study author's own suggestion that the issue may have more to do with the dominant figure's gender than the divorce itself.

What I'm trying to say is, don't abandon your kids, and don't let the mother force you to abandon them (or be geographically distant). As an adult I can now look back and see just how much work my father put in to getting his time with me growing up, but as a child the experience was so much different. It's not about what you say or what you do, it's about being there.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-03-02T21:38:39+00:00

The sons realize "a woman is going to do that to me too one day" and spiral into a depression that eventually ends in suicide. More and more I'm starting to think that perhaps a more conservative and traditionalist approach to society is right. You have to ask yourself, have we ruined a working society by liberating women too much from their traditional roles? And if we're going to go that route why don't we liberate men too through removing child support and such?

pcarvious · 2012-03-02T22:10:34+00:00

Just another JeremiahMRA troll thread pretending that religious conservative nostalgia for nuclear famalies has anything to do with the MRM.

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