I've always been
very against divorce.
Not exact matches
The Bible is
very clearly
against divorce as well.
In 1 Corinthians Paul simply assumes that a certain kind of behaviour is unquestionably unacceptable, while in the same letter making
very careful moral distinctions between matters covered by a «word of the Lord» (for example
against divorce), matters he himself advises are best (keeping an unbelieving wife), and matters intrinsically indifferent where we must be governed by respect for the consciences of others (eating butcher's meat which may have come from offerings to idols).
What began as a reasonable enough reaction
against the Victorian tendency to disbelieve the wife and deprive her of her children upon
divorce, has transmogrified itself into the
very reverse, where husbands and fathers, even those of otherwise good reputation and position, are assumed to be the villains of the piece.
The principle that children under three should not stay overnight with their separated or
divorced fathers, when parents can not agree on co-parenting arrangements, has recently reappeared as an argument
against co-residential parenting for
very young children.
A man of great charm, humour, zest for life and total privacy,
very much the artist as gregarious loner, de Kooning was born in 1904 in Rotterdam to parents who
divorced when he was five; his custody was given to the father, but his mother, who owned a bar, successfully appealed
against the decision and brought him up.
Collaborative
divorce is a form of dispute resolution where the family agrees from the
very beginning that they are not going to use attorneys to fight
against one another in court.
Collaborative
divorce is a form of dispute resolution where the family agrees from the
very beginning that they are not going to use attorneys to fight
against one another in court.
These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or
very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good /
very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated /
divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good /
very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence
against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent /
very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.
Parents are essentially pitted
against each other from the
very beginning, and this can be
very hard on children who are already struggling with the idea of
divorce itself.
The
very structure of family law litigation (i.e. arguing a
divorce case in court before a judge) requires partners and parents to aggressively position themselves
against the other to «win» the favor of a judge.
Despite the
very personal nature of
divorce, a contested
divorce case is one spouse
against the other.