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Ask Dr. Helen: Should Men Get Married?

October 31, 2007 - 2:01 am - by Helen Smith
Robert
2007-11-02 15:56:45

I’m a 28 year old unmarried male. I would like to get married and have children one day, though I’m not sure that will ever happen (largely because I’m not particularly sociable, and don’t think I’ll ever find a girl I want to settle down with) I mostly agree that the current system is broken and biased against men.

BUT.. On the “70% of divorces being filed by women” statistic… I DO have an explanation for that. Several family friends (mostly my sister’s girlfriends) have been divorced. And in all of them the husband took off with another woman (All three of them also already had children.. How you can just abandon your spouse and kids is beyond me… Not in the manner these so called “Men” did.) In any case, the men abandoned their spouses.. but it was the WOMEN who ended up filing for the divorce. I’d say this might go some way towards explaining the 70% figure. Sometimes the man leaves..And leaves the woman to file the official paperwork.