IndependntLogic
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- Jul 14, 2011
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The rate has skyrocketed since the "sexual revolution". I wonder why? Could it be that it's a bad idea to promote promiscuity, sex on demand, childhood sexuality?
I think the biggest factor is simply that women were given the ability to leave bad marriages. Historically, women have always been at the mercy of men for survival. Even in this country, women weren't allowed to vote until the 1920's and when they were forced into the labor market because their husbands left them or died, they overwhelmingly found themselves in sweatshops.
Prior to the 60's, women weren't taken seriously as careerists because they couldn't control whether or not they might get pregnant and have to leave work.
Control over pregnancy and women going to work, came at the same time. Then came the Women's Liberation movement - which was admittedly extreme but needed.
So if their husbands were abusive, unfaithful, unloving etc... they could leave and actually have a decent life. As I have a daughter, I'm grateful that's the case.
THAT is the main reason that divorce has skyrocketed. BTW, promiscuity the cause of divorce? The highest level of divorce and teen pregnancy in the USA are both among the same demographic. Care to guess where and what that is? I'll give you hint. "Amen!"