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Re:When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Im... by reso on Sunday February 11, 2024 @01:40PM (#39337294)
Are you suggesting we restrict divorce in order to reduce male suicide?
Re:When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Im... by useless_foghorn on Sunday February 11, 2024 @01:48PM (#39337403)
All social pressures have a cost and an optimal balance. Men tend toward a less bonded mating strategy, and divorce law seems to seek to punish that behavior (which, again, can be offset by prenups). A symptom of a social pressure that is out of balance might be disproportionate male suicide rate.
Re:When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Im... by bitshiftfaced on Sunday February 11, 2024 @02:48PM (#39337984)
I didn't get that impression. To me it's more about calling into question bringing up certain statistics when if you were to really make policy based on unbiased decision-making, then you'd have to ask uncomfortable questions just like the one you've asked.
Re:When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Im... by svnt on Sunday February 11, 2024 @01:49PM (#39337412)
Better protections for men from the social consequences that some women architect purely out of spite would go a long way.

I’m often in awe that we can both propose equal rights and responsibilities and sympathetically treat forty-year-old adults as children in these situations, but only if they belong to one sex. The other sex gets disgust or at best pity.