
The high cost of millennial divorce
Article here. Notice the POV the article is written with. I'll leave it to the reader to judge. I have a fix for women leaving their husbands then complaining that the judge isn't transferring enough of his money over to her: Don't marry in the first place! Simple enough. Excerpt:
'Jasmine Bloemhof was starting to build a career in publicity when she got married at 23. By the time she filed for divorce, a month shy of her 31st birthday, she was a stay-at-home mom with two toddlers and a nearly $50,000 student-debt balance hanging over her head. She had no savings to speak of.
"Just seven days before filing for divorce, I had accepted a remote job as a publicist — something I was genuinely excited about," says Bloemhof, now 41 and in Los Angeles. Just as she was about to start, the agency rescinded the offer. "They said my divorce timing was not ideal, and they were concerned about my ability to service their clients while in the throes of something as turbulent as a divorce with two toddlers. I should have sued them for letting me go, but I could not imagine putting energy into that. Everything felt like it was unraveling."
As she struggled to find steady public relations work and waited for the courts to negotiate payment plans for child and spousal support, Bloemhof racked up credit card debt to cover basic necessities. She sold whatever she could rustle up that might be valuable: jewelry, shoes, designer handbags. To get around, she borrowed a car from her parents.'
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