‘”Why is it that 70% OF ALL DIVORCES are instigated by the ones who are supposed to crave commitment?” Yes that is hard to explain. I really don’t mean to be insulting, but it is so off center I’m suspicious of it. Do you remember where the 70% came from? Statistics can be deceiving sometimes.”‘
This is the exact number quoted to me by my law professors in family law and torts, as well as in at least 3 different legal textbooks.
Of course, they could all be wrong, but frankly I don’t have the time to go out and interview all the country’s court clerks, so I guess I for one will just have to take it at face value.
“Yes that is hard to explain.”
Is it? The longer I live and the more I observe the more I am convinced that generally women are more egocentric than men. Since Darwinian explanations are all the rage, I’d offer the proposition that this redounds to the benefit of women – more concerned with their more troublesome anatomy and personal health, more need to select mates carefully – and to children, whom women generally see as “a part of them,” so that the children are cared for as a woman woudl care for herself, or more. So they are given a surfeit of egotism, which they will apply to their children, perhaps. I don’t know. But I suspect that on the bell curve of egotism the women would be surprisingly well-represented on the right. Of course mem are not immune. I’m just speaking in generalities here. (70%)
