Anyone shocked that the shooter's mother was a rich gun fantatic and not a teacher?

[TorchTheWitch]

25. maybe because she wanted to

Just because she's wealthy doesn't mean she wouldn't want to do something constructive that she enjoyed and was a help to the community.

Quite a number of states still have alimony, and they all should. How does one support themselves if they've been a stay at home mother/father all their life with no recent job experience? My sister desperately wants to get divorced from her mentally ill husband that is so overweight he can't get out of bed but refuses to lose weight and expects her to waite on him hand and foot when she spent her whole life raising their kids as a stay at home mother since that's what they both wanted. Unfortunately, though she has a college degree and a few years working in hospital administration over thirty years ago nobody even bothers reading her resume, and frankly she doesn't have anything to put on it for the past few decades. The only job she could likely get especially in this terrible economy is a clerk at the 7-11 or flipping burgers somewhere that couldn't possibly afford her to live and to top it off she's also over 50 years old.

If her husband was normal and had been able to continue working she should be able to divorce and go back to school or get into a job's program or gain some work experience as a temp or something for awhile until she could reasonably support herself. That's why all state's should have alimony.

It's hardly just wealthy people that can afford to be stay at home moms/dads. By the time you have to pay for daycare for two or three children unless you have a really good job it makes better financial sense for one parent to be a stay at home parent. And that was a big factor in my sister and her husband deciding she should be a stay at home mom - it was CHEAPER if she didn't work rather than pay daycare and own a second car so she could get back and forth to her job.

Alimony should be available for exactly these situations. When you've been out of the workforce for so long that nobody wants to hire you to do anything that could afford you to live without staying married how are you to support yourself if you divorce?