Reply #7: Why did she not have the option?

[dmallind]

Women abandon families too. Just because he took the option and she didn't does not mean she never had it. It means she had different, and more socially acceptable, priorities.

And women are not the only ones who become single parents. That they do so more often than men is largely due to the massive, and massively sexist, bias of judges in custody cases - in favor of the female.