"Why Great Husbands Are Being Abandoned"

[Warren DeMontague]

181. Right on.

Personally I watched my parents' generation- I suppose they might be considered the "Mad Men" generation, a bit too old to be hippies or boomers--- en masse they hit the 1970s and probably half if not more of the families divorced. My folks split up on the early end, and when it happened it was still this sort of shocking thing said in hushed tones "divorce"?

5 years later everybody and their bastard brother bob had parents who had split up.

I don't say this as, woe is me or even to criticize-- I suspect what happened was a lot of people who got married too early or for spurious reasons in a sort of lingering 1950s cultural atmosphere, and then by the 70s the whole world had changed-- and there was a ton of re-evaluation.

One thing I think has happened; or I hope- is that at since then more people wait to get married (needless to say, I think 'abstinence only' sorts of approaches that tell people they need to marry the first person they have sex with, are inane) and take the decision seriously, and do it for the right reasons. Not everyone should be married, nor do they need to be.