Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons

Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by klipt on Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:43PM (#26050244)

A better analogy might be "amputating a leg is a healthy end to gangrene". Better not to have gangrene in the first place, but if someone does, better to amputate the leg than die.

But you wouldn't say "amputating a leg is a healthy end to having legs" because for most leg havers, there are better outcomes.

In the same vein, I'd say "divorce is a healthy end to a bad marriage" but not "divorce is a healthy end to marriages in general".

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Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than thos... by hamburglar on Saturday February 06, 2021 @07:45PM (#26051587)

The “bad” part seems like a strange distinction to need to make. Are people in good marriages getting divorced?

In other words, I think it’s reasonable to say that divorce is a healthy way to end a marriage, because if it ended in divorce, then by definition, at least one party thought it needed to, making it a bad marriage.

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