NY divorce law: unfair - and just?

	posted by Matt on 05:07 PM December 11th, 2004
	Clancy writes "In this editorial, Susan Cheever makes some outlandish assertions. She obviously did no homework whatsoever but instead chose to get her statistics right out of her a--." Click "Read more..." for more.

	Clancy continues... "On the one hand, it's a shame to spend resources keeping people together who don't want to be together. On the other hand, making divorce difficult protects those who don't want divorce, and this often includes the wife and children of the marriage. According to what I've read, women overwhelmingly initiate divorce proceedings. The following paragraph made me wonder if I was in one of those evil parallel universes where everything is backward. There's a difference between justice and fairness. 'This law is still the last protection of the abandoned wife,' says one experienced lawyer. The law as it is gives the rejected spouse the power to say no. The world isn't fair, and it is particularly unfair to women who have compromised their earning power to raise their children. As long as women make less money and do most of the domestic work, and as long as women still lose their sexual power at an age when men come into theirs, the world will be unfair. Let's see. If a woman loses her sexual power at an age when the man is coming into his, that must mean the woman is about 30 years older than her husband. Maybe it's just me but I think this column has more holes in it than Bonnie and Clyde's last set of clothes."

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Is she serious? (Score:1) by thea on 07:07 AM December 13th, 2004 EST (#1) (User #1862 Info) "On the other hand, making divorce difficult protects those who don't want divorce, and this often includes the wife and children of the marriage" Hmmm. That's very interesting since, from what I understand, WOMEN initiate nearly 3/4 of all divorces, especially with children because that will only help their plan to royally fuck over their husband in court. Those child abuse accusations really come in handy for vindictive ex-wives in the Divorce Industry. "This law is still the last protection of the abandoned wife,' says one experienced lawyer." This is the last law to protect wives, really. Gee, and here I thought ALL OF THE LAWS OF THE LAND protected wives, over husbands. Whoops, silly me. I forgot about that mean ole patriarchy. "The world isn't fair, and it is particularly unfair to women who have compromised their earning power to raise their children. As long as women make less money and do most of the domestic work, and as long as women still lose their sexual power at an age when men come into theirs, the world will be unfair." Now if we're done with 'Feminist Victimology 101' let's move on to reality. If women don't want to compromise their earnings to raise children then perhaps they SHOULD NOT HAVE CHILDREN! Duh, that's why I'm not going to have kids! Or perhaps, they should allow the father to be a stay-at-home dad and let him raise the children so he can build stronger emotional bonds with them. Sadly for maternalist-feminists like this idiot, that means breaking the monopoly that women have over child rearing and child care. And women lacking sexual power?! Then what does she call a woman's ability to lie about consensual sex and turning it into a rape accusation? More oppression from mean ole patriarchy? What does she call a woman's ability to use her sexuality to lie about her age in order to entrap an older man within a statutory rape accusation? Patriarchy at work again? Women here in the West have ALL of the sexual power. When it comes to heterosexual laiasons, it's the male who is at the mercy of the female. I have far more sexual power then any man here in the West. Maybe in Saudi Arabia women lack everything, but here in the West, my god, it's like play ground for us women. Divorce and Custody fights are painful, cruel, and tragic for MEN, NOT for us women. What an idiot. Now that article and that moronic misandrist's arguments were so stupid it was incredibly painful. What should I do to divert the pain? Jump out of my dorm's window? I'm on the sixth floor, so that would definitely divert the pain, or kill me. *Ms.Thea the Pre-Law Major, Pro-Gender Egalitarian, and Pro-Reproductive Rights Activist*

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