Braddock wrote:
Stingray24 wrote:
Braddock wrote:
... growing up in a house where there is no love is often worse than growing up in a house where only one parent is present at any given time.
How do you know there's no love?
The assumptions abound in this thread ...
I'm talking about a hypothetical home and you're questioning the veracity of it as though only your opinion has all the answers. I'm basing my opinion on people I know who have many issues as a result of growing up in homes where the parents have stayed together out of a sense of duty and not love for each other. Are you going to seriously argue that it is better in every single case to stay together and raise a child as a family unit when the parents don't love each other (and sometimes don't even like each other) rather than separate and share parenting in an environment where mutual hatred isn't constantly bubbling under the surface?
Because if you are then in my humble opinion you are not in touch with reality.
I thought you were referring to the non-hypothetical home of the expecting mother and her husband. Certainly every case is unique and some people are better separated than feuding together.
ghettoperson wrote:
Were you ready to marry at 17? Because I don't know any (currently) married couples that have been together since they were 17. Of course they could love each other, but that doesn't mean they're ready to get married.
No, I wasn’t ready. That reality helped me keep it in my pants until I was older and found a woman I truly loved. Listening to society, it wouldn't take much as a young couple to be convinced that they shouldn't even try to make it work because it would be too hard.
Last edited by Stingray24 (2008-09-01 12:12:54)