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Apr 30, 2008 - comments: 3
We’ve known for awhile that divorce is bad for children, but it costs the United States billions of dollars as well. Today, Dr. Land shares from a new study that examines the burden divorce places on the American taxpayer.
You’ll hear all this and your phone calls on today’s For Faith and Family!
- STUDY: Tax payer cost of divorce – americanvalues.org
- STUDY: Why Marriage Matters – americanvalues.org
- STUDY: Hardwired to Connect – americanvalues.org
- AUDIO: Interview with a lead researcher from the Hardwired study
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topic(s): Family, Children, Marriage, Divorce/Remarriage
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1 On Apr 30th, 2008, at 3:30pm, Bob wrote:
I was *very* disappointed in this broadcast, due to its anti-male bias.
The fact is that almost 70% of divorce actions are instituted by women. Women get the kids, half the assets, and a permanent part of the man’s income for years to come. If he’s lucky, the man will get to see his children on a regular basis.
You also blamed men for not marrying the women who gave birth to out of wedlock children. What about equally counseling the women to save sex until marriage? What about the government hand-outs programs which *encourage* single women to have children and to stay single?
Bob
2 On Apr 30th, 2008, at 4:43pm, Tony wrote:
I’d like Dr Land to have me on the air and answer the question by what basis is he saying that the issue of single parent homes is MOSTLY a father issue.
The last time I checked, when divorces are filed 2/3rds give or take are filed by women, not men.
That means that twice as many women are ending marriages than men. It can’t be because these men are sinning far more than women, as both men and women are sinners.
If men are being unfaithful, it’s not with other men. So for every man who is in sin, there is a woman right there with him most likely.
So to say that men are not as committed to the family as women is not borne out by the stats on marriage. Women are the initiators of divorce twice as often as men.
3 On Apr 30th, 2008, at 4:50pm, Tony wrote:
The woman who called on today’s show was right, the church is not doing enough. When my former wife left, to pursue her affair, our Southern Baptist Church did nothing.
I was told to love her more, but when asked for practical, concrete guidelines on how to do that when she was living outside the home, and involve in an affair, all I got was the shrugged shoulders.
When I asked about church discipline, the process spelled out in Matthew 18 to try to reach a brother or sister in sin, they didn’t want to do it, they didn’t believe it would work.
I guess they know more than God.
I’d like to hear from Dr Land on how he can support his assertion that men are abandoning families when the stats for the last two decades show that women end marriages twice as often as men.
I’d like the church to step up and address this, instead of just saying it’s a father problem. When you see a divorced man in your church, the odds are 2:1 that he was divorced against his will.