Marriage Promotes ‘White Supremacy,’ George Mason Professor Says
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Superb article! Sounds as if the AAUP should be classified as a Domestic Terrorist Organization.
Letiecq is welcome to leave the Commonwealth and the Nation. Airplanes and boats departing daily.
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Or she could sneak across our southern border.
But no. That won’t work. The Mexican authorities would detain and deport her back to the U.S.
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Or she could sneak across our southern border.
But no. That won’t work. The Mexican authorities would detain and deport her back to the U.S.
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It is so easy to blame your problems on others.
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As the saying goes, Prof Letiecq should avoid letting the door hitting her in the axx as she leaves the country.
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Since Asians have a lower divorce rate than non-Hispanic whites, can one argue that marriage promotes Asian supremacy.
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Somehow, I suspect my married neighbors who are black, South Asian, African and Hispanic would agree that their marriages have provided them with no benefits. None of them would even consider filing their 2023 FIT returns as “married filing jointly.”
But then, we don’t live in the rarified air of Metro D.C.Have college professors sunk below journalists?
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so maybe 1/2 of marriages end in divorce? Are they also “responsible” for the bad stuff happening?
And heckfire, look at the news these days when the parents are being charged and convicted for the crimes of their kids!
This post is typical of how far BR has strayed from it’s original Virginia governance theme.
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A peek at the stats tells me far more want to read about the GMU prof who hates White People than about that boring tax issue, Larry. Clicks rule….
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ignores dumb culture war stuff… yep!
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Please tell us oh brilliant one what Virginia governance should be. Do you need to call Louise Lucas first or Scott Surovell to get your talking points?
Meanwhile, please engage again in telling us all why talking about single parent homes (really meaning absence of father) is beneficial to society in THIS COUNTRY in any way.
We don’t need to hear about people in Iceland named Agnusdottir for reference.-
marriage? divorce? single parent?
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Nice incoherent non-response.
Success formula – complete high school, get a job, get married, have children. Works most of the time.
This isn’t hard. Unless you live in Unicorn I believe everything my liberal betters tell me Land…-
don’t get divorced?
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Wow…really trying hard not to understand aren’t you. Let me help you in another way…there is a great mysterious way not to end up with a clump of cells growing in your body that Lefties say justify murder, but you could try not hooking up with jerks/dirtballs/losers. Just a suggestion…
And in a saner America, couples often stayed together until the children were out of the house when the marriage was fractured because they understood their responsibility to the kids and society. But this is so easy – if Larry approves, it was bad policy. No Fault Divorce was a societal mistake. -
Doing the inane headline thing again… What does that mean Larry?
Have you forgotten the religious dogma of Covid Denial?
Correlation does not equal causation and the exception does not negate the rule…
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serial and mass killers come from two-parent families, right?
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Some of them.
Anecdotal whataboutisms are a weak method of making whatever case you are trying to make.
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Plenty of current news examples of killers brought up in two parent families…
Plenty of really bad parents in the news these days.
Parents who have poor educations and as a result live in poverty and have kids , typically struggle to bring their kids up right.
It’s as much a function of poverty and ignorance as it is “single parent”.
If a kid is brought up by educated parents with a decent income, chances are much better the kid will be brought up “right” – even when divorce happens… as long as the single parent has a good income and lives in a decent neighborhood with a decent school – the kid has a decent chance to grow up with a good education and a good job.
Kids who do poorly in school, typically grow up poorly educated, can’t get a decent job and their kids suffer the same fate.
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plenty of children killed by couples these days. More than a few kids becoming killers with both mom and dad at home.
Looks at the facts and realities, not what you want to believe instead.
I understand that birth control will become even more freely available. Good?
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Hmmm…
Birth control vs killing a baby….
Lemme think…
But that might lessen the instances of the baby-killers’ sacred ritual. Are you OK with it Larry? -
okay with birth control Walt?
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Can you read Larry?
But I’ll come back at you with similar inanity – OK with baby-killing Larry?
(Which appears to be an entirely rhetorical question)
Baby-killing is evil. Even if I were the most vocal opponent of birth control, birth control would be the lesser evil. This isn’t hard, unless you wish to be dense on purpose, which is what you have to be to continue to vote for policies that hurt what you claim to care about…unless you’re evil, which I don’t exclude as a possibility either, particularly for the people at the top.
…so maybe 1/2 of marriages end in divorce?
What does that have to do with the bogus claim that marriage promotes white supremacy?
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Divorce must then promote slavery…
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Some maintain that marriage is slavery.
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Well, some prison sentences are shorter…
But to the topic, it’s hard to be free, white, and twenty-one with a $3000/month child support payment… that most white dudes don’t pay anyway. Put that in your Dobbs decision and smoke it, eh?
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this?
” Marriage benefits people of all races by reducing crime — which disproportionately affects black people, who are overrepresented among murder victims, according to the FBI — and by improving the lot of children. Consider these frightening statistics about how the vast majority of juvenile delinquents and young criminals come from fatherless households, which are what typically occurs in the absence of marriage:
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control)
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978.)
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988)
85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992)” -
White people are good at getting married, but not so good at staying married? Does divorce make white people less supreme? None of the Supremes were white. Does that make supremacy a poly racial characteristic?
Can’t fight the culture wars without breaking a few quail eggs…
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college or university that tolerates these fraudulent academics and
their malignant, cultural gibberish would never see a dollar of mine. At
some point I hope the taxpayers who subsidize these schools realize
what is happening and demand a cessation of support.
For me getting married and having children was a change that meant I had responsibilities beyond chasing my own pleasures and whims. It settled my butt down and I got earnest about earning a dependable living and providing a decent stable home for my kids. They have both done well thank you.
There was nothing racist about our decisions to get married and raise a family to the best of our ability. To think otherwise attributes virtue to racism. What m*r*nic blather from Letiecq.
Typical social justice professor. Not surprised. Maybe I will audit her/she/hers next class Anti Colonial Methodologies or Antiracist and Decolonizing Research Capstone.
…she employs “critical family theorizing … to delineate an overarching orientation to structural oppression and unequal power relations that advantages [white heteropatriarchal nuclear families] and marginalizes others as a function of marriage fundamentalism.”
If universities simply stopped funding or supporting such utter nonsense, I suspect the cost of a real college education could be dramatically reduced.
I also suspect that AAUP actually stands for ‘American Association of Useless Professors’.
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The argument seems to be that since non-Hispanics whites (and Asians) have a higher rate of successful marriages, that marriage has been arranged to benefit whites (and Asians). The same argument as critical rate theory.
Just remember how many times someone has written on a conservative website about the failure of parents when discussing black or Hispanic children without dealing with the fact that a majority of black or Hispanic children are not being raised in a household with both biological parents as compared to non-Hispanic whites or Asians.
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That very well may be the argument, but it is posited without one shred of evidence apart from the fact that non-Hispanics whites (and Asians) have a higher rate of successful marriages.
As we know, correlation does not equal causation. And, of course, there is the fact that there is no racial or ethnic component in this country’s marriage laws or in the way married couples are treated from a tax standpoint. It is simply not true that marriage benefits one racial or ethnic group more than another.
Not everything is about race.
RE: Just remember how many times some has written on a conservative website about the failure of parents when discussing black or Hispanic children without dealing with the face that a majority of black or Hispanic children are not being raised in a household with both biological parents as compared to non-Hispanic whites or Asians.
Actually, conservatives do “deal with the fact” that a majority of black or Hispanic children are not being raised in two-parent homes. They argue that it is the primary reason for the failure of those parents.
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It is not a failure of the parents since there are not two parents. It is an explanation of the failure of the child. Raising a child as a single parent increase the risks of failure. HOwever, if one looks at the social conservatives pushing for trad wives and large families, those social conservatives overlook the risk of having a black sheep child when having a large family.
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No conservative I am aware of is claiming that being raised in a single parent home is the only reason a child may turn out bad. Nor are they claiming that two-parent homes are guaranteed to prevent it.
In fact, they claim the same thing as you: Raising a child as a single parent increase the risks of failure.
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“85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control)
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978.)
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988)
85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992)”would love to see the specific cites! 😉
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Larry, any theory as to why these kids are fatherless?
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no theories, lots of facts and lots of kids in one parent families who turn out fine.
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HISTORY. Also, they’re the children of UNMARRIED parents, NOT FATHERLESS. There’s a difference.
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I think article uses the term “fatherless”
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The ‘article’ is wrong/imprecise.
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“No conservative I am aware of is claiming that being raised in a single parent home is the only reason a child may turn out bad.”
Walt makes that argument routinely in these comments… to the point of advocating for making no-fault divorce illegal…
and he is by far, not alone.
I have never seen Walt, or anyone else who posts comments at BR claim that being raised in a single parent home is the only reason a child may turn out bad.
If you have then please post a real quote from an actual comment.
He pretty much condemns one parent families and attributes all manner of bad outcomes to such situations. You can see it yourself if you look.
I’m going to assume by your response that you cannot provide a quote from one of his comments in which he states that being raised in a single parent home is the only reason a child may turn out bad.
I’m going to assume by your response that you cannot provide a quote from one of his comments in which he states that being raised in a single parent home is the only reason a child may turn out bad.
I’m going to assume by your response that you cannot provide a quote from one of his comments in which he states that being raised in a single parent home is the only reason a child may turn out bad.
Plenty of examples. I’m not doing your bidding on them if you are too lazy to go look or observe for yourself.
It’s his basic theme over and over.
I have never seen Walt claim that being raised in a single parent home is the only reason a child may turn out bad.
If you have then please post a real quote from an actual comment.
Oh no, he points to both so-called “illegitimacy” AND no-fault divorce as the primary culprits.
“If you have then please post a real quote from an actual comment.”
Should be easy if it exists, Walt doesn’t hide his comment history.
And yet, NO CONSERVATIVE is actively interrogating the reasons why men (NOT WOMEN) are absent from the parenting function and how to make men hold up their end of the bargain.
Actually there are two parents. The failure of one of them to function as a parent is really hard on their children.
You’re hitting the nail on the head. For many hundreds of years, marriages and the protection it affords was only allowed to non-black people. One can’t underestimate the desire to differentiate from one’s abusers in good and bad ways plus the legacy impacts of policies that intentionally removed fathers from low-income households and discouraged marriage. Critical inquiry isn’t garbage. It’s thought. More people should try it.
…policies that intentionally removed fathers from low-income households and discouraged marriage.
I think that is an excellent description of president Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “Great Society” and it’s infamous “War on Poverty”.
Actually an excellent description of Nixon’s War on Drugs as extended by Reagan.
That too.
Actually an excellent description of Nixon’s War on Drugs as extended by Reagan.
I’ve never assumed any party had a lock on good policy, also, that was before my time. Good ideas are good ideas. Right now, only one party actually proposes good ideas. The other is plum out, preferring simplicity and jingoism. Johnson was a known racist who felt obligated to do what Kennedy would have done, not an inclusive thought leader.
The only argument you’ll get from me is that I think both the major crime families, I mean political parties, in this country are out of good ideas.
But you’re arguing that an academic, questioning the disparate impact of marriage policies, is a problem? There’s no question that history, policy and practice have conferred privileges on the relationships, marital and otherwise, of some over others. Are you objecting to the discussion of those policies and practices or the identification of their lasting, disparate, impacts?
I’m arguing that the institute of marriage as practiced in this country does not promote white supremacy, and that anyone who tries to claim it does is attempting to further divide our society.
Marriage *DID* promote white supremacy, for decades if not hundreds of years, and anyone who denies the lasting impact of those intentional public policies is attempting to erase our shared history, deny facts, and render our future generations deaf, dumb, and blind to the origins of current conditions.
Marriage has historically been privileged and promoted only for non-black, non-low-income, heterosexual people. Marriages amongst black people were not held in any respect with women, girls and families routinely violated and separated up til and through the later days of the 20th century. Claims to the contrary are ahistorical.
re: ” Letiecq claims that only white heterosexual couples reap the social and financial benefits of marriage subsidized by the government while minority Americans do not gain any such benefits.”
Which is demonstrably NOT TRUE from a tax perspective.
The 2023 standard deduction is $13,850 for single filers and those married filing separately, $27,700 for those married filing jointly, and $20,800 for heads of household (the parent with th kids).
The maximum tax credit available per kid is $2,000 for each child under 17 on Dec. 31, 2023. Only a portion is refundable this year, up to $1,600 per child.
The 2023 earned income tax credit is claimed on taxes filed by April 15, 2024. The credit amounts are $600, $3,995, $6,604 and $7,430, depending on your filing status and how many children you have.
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The argument is that the married filing jointly is built around the idea that the husband will be the major earner and that the wife is a secondary earner. This is least likely for African-American couples.
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For “married filing jointly”, how does a woman earning more than her husband differ from a man earning more than his wife? How does it affect the total taxes they pay?
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At our income level, the bands are not double that of single filers and if we file jointly, I get no credit for paying college tuition or student loan debt.
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“Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together…”
Geez, where are the free speech advocates when a woke professor expresses and opinion? Run her out of town!!!! Utter nonsense!!!! Terrorist!!!! Oh, my.
BTW, I thought Liberty was VA’s largest university.
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Who proposed infringing on the woman’s right to free speech? Who proposed running her out of town?
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Who said utter nonsense?
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I did. But it is absolutely not an example of opposing the liberal professor’s free speech.
Again, who said she should not have the right to free speech?
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Dumb speech should also be free, as illustrated by “talk is cheap”.
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Dumb speech should also be free…
Yes. And I have never seen a conservative here at BR claim otherwise.
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Some of us exercise it here often:)
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Huh? They don’t even want teachers to teach accurate history!
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Republicans. They literally want to check female IDs and medical records at county borders to stop women from exercising the right to travel freely. Is travel/movement not a form of speech? Voting with your feet? https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/28/texas-county-approves-abortion-travel-ban/
He’s back! Tanned and rested.
Glad you’re around!
Hey, there’s something called The Liberty Councel. Any of youse guys heard of a Matt Staver? ‘Cause he says liberals heat their homes with dead babies. And you guys think only liberals got a lock on weird.
“ Tomorrow, Liberty Counsel will file our reply to the U.S. Supreme Court requesting the Court take up the case of pro-life hero Sandra Merritt — the brave grandmother whose undercover journalism forced America to admit that not much has changed since Jezebel’s time.
Then, as now, the bodies of innocent children are used to heat our houses (as with the D.C. clinic) and fuel our medicine.”
Personally, I find them tough to light.
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not if you feed them beans….
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Tough to push ‘em through that tube.
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Seriously though, in states and districts where aborted fetuses are disposed of as medical waste, and medical waste is burned in waste-to-energy plants, what this guy is claiming is literally true (or at least possible). Which is not to say his wording is not wildly misleading.
I don’t know how frequently “fetuses to energy” is practiced nationwide, but I’m pretty sure fetuses are not considered medical waste in Virginia, so it should not be occurring at all here.
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Routinely. Body parts, tissue samples, and yes, fetuses are hazmat. Many state laws and local ordinances require incineration of such waste.
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Didn’t we just celebrate, as a nation, the ability for LGBTQs to marry and become white supremacists?
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We did, but it’s bigger than LGBTQ+++s. We owe a huge conceptual debt to Letiecq.
Last month was the month to celebrate black history. That also encompasses the right of black people to marry and transmogrify into white supremacists.
Talk about diversity, inclusion and equity all wrapped into one! It should be the law of the land. It’s a slam dunk, all black people have to do to achieve white supremacist equity is to say “I do”.
The children will benefit too. What a perfect solution, defining equity up to embrace white supremacy rather than down to eliminate different outcomes based on ability. That’s the best part, white supremacy has never depended on ability to be supreme. Anybody can play.
Whod’a guessed that white supremacy through marriage was the critical component of critical race theory, or that it was so easy to acquire?
Will Letiecq break the news of her discovery to Kendi and Hannah-Jones? Might they marry and become white supremacists too?
This has to be said. Y’all’s obsession with Fatherlessness (TM) is behind the curve…again. Children who live in households headed by women aren’t always or typically fatherless. They are born to UNMARRIED parents, *some* of whom are NOT COHABITATING but many of whom are; some have excellent relations with their biological, adoptive or surrogate fathers and some do not. A better question, that NEVER gets asked or answered here, is why so many men are impregnating women and heading for the hills, unable or unwilling to parent the children they create? That’s not a racial issue, it’s a socioeconomic one, even as there are definite racial/ethnic reasons why some groups are historically more/first affected by male abandonment.
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You are correct. Assuming a kid is fatherless because he/she lives in a single parent home headed by a woman is not entirely fair or accurate. There are plenty of good, attentive, loving, fathers who actively and enthusiastically participate in their children’s upbringing even if they and the children’s mother cannot get along with one other.
And I, too, cannot understand how any man could abandon and refuse to support his own child.
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This issue keeps being ignored tho— WHAT IS WRONG WITH MEN? As has been shown here, they feel entitled to objectify, use, verbally and physically abuse, terrorize, threaten, disenfranchise, and cover up their actions toward others. Make it make sense. It’s a global problem.
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Whenever my mother felt compelled to complain to me about what a POS she thought my dad is, my answer was very simple:
“You married him. I didn’t”.
That usually shut her up. She had no answer for that one, for the concept that she might bear SOME responsibility for what happened is a foreign concept to her.
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It sounds like your mother made a bad choice in partner. It sounds like your father was less than honorable. She certainly had responsibility for her bad choice and shouldn’t have burdened you with his failings. What part of the responsibility for that breakdown did/do you heap on him?? Seems like not enough. Leaving and/or not contributing is a choice. Nothing my spouse could ever do or say would drive me from my kids lives or stop me from putting their interests first. Too few men operate with a ‘no way out’ mindset and it’s a lot easier for kids to demonize the parent who is there than the one who’s not.
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” it’s a lot easier for kids to demonize the parent who is there than the one who’s not.”
Quite the opposite, actually. The parent who is there can gaslight the kids into thinking that the absent parent is a complete monster, to the point that the kids want NOTHING to do with them. It’s not uncommon from what I’ve seen and read.
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Oooohkay. Is it your position that women are driving fathers away from their kids? It sounds like that is the leap you’re making.
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SOME of them do. Certainly not all.
Of the ones that do, talking trash about the father to their children certainly qualifies as behavior that may drive the kids away from the father. (Yes it can work both ways, there was a period of time in my life when I was really disconnected from my dad and my mother’s antics certainly did not help that situation. In fact I sorta kinda think they made it worse…).
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The divorce was her choice.
Even in her old age, she is exceedingly difficult and stubborn. I am seeing what my father had to deal with. I don’t blame him for checking out. I think she’s a narcissist. All the signs are there, the biggest of which is the inability to accept any responsibility.
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I do. One can leave a spouse and not their child. It’s unfortunate your parents made those choices but anyh parent talking trash doesn’t absolve the other of responsibility.
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You don’t know what happened, you weren’t there to see what happened.
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Nope, I wasn’t and don’t. When my mother left my father, stranded and homeless, he never stopped communicating or being in my life. NEVER. I observed my mother’s weaknesses and drew my own conclusions about why their relationship failed. Still, he NEVER abdicated, avoided, or failed to uphold his job as Dad. It wasn’t a money thing. It was an emotionally available/presence thing. We need more men like that who don’t make excuses.
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It took many years but I talked with my dad AND things I found out after he passed gave me a new perspective which made me realize that my mom really wasn’t quite blameless in the relationship. I’d always suspected that she wasn’t giving me the unvarnished truth, though. Might even go so far as to call it “gaslighting”.
There was also an element of abuse in the relationship, and no, it didn’t all come from dad.
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I’d be curious to know, however, what my maternal grandmother said about her 2nd husband, the one that was her ticket to the USA from Germany and which she divorced, apparently as soon as it was convenient to do so.
Worth noting that my mom and my grandmother didn’t get along.
It sounds like you have real issues with women. Maybe explore that?
See, there you go. Blame the guy. The women don’t have anything to do with the problem.
Worth noting that of the 3 women I know on my mom’s side, my mom, the aunt, the grandmother–all were divorced.
Kinda makes you wonder what the problem is there.
I do have a huge problem with my grandmother, I believe that about 90% of the issues with my mom are a direct result of the poor upbringing she got from that woman, who from all accounts was more interested in partying and the local social scene than taking care of her kids.
Uh, my response literally didn’t mention blame. It’s very obvious, to me, that you have some unresolved issues with women who may not have wanted to be parents at all, let alone solo parents. Should I *not* recommend exploring that in therapy? I know it’s hard for some to appreciate that strict gender roles hurt/trap men and women alike but what you’re describing is why everyone shouldn’t birth and parent kids just because they manage to conceive.
I have unresolved issues with SOME women, mostly my mother. Not all. (Gosh, am I repeating myself, sort of?).
I’ve resigned myself to the fact that it is what it is and it will remain unresolved. Maybe that in and of itself is a resolution, but it certainly won’t stop me from discussing how the women in the relationship isn’t always blameless and how listening to that one side will give you a distorted view, at best, of what happened.
Nope, I think you’ve been clear. IJS what you’re describing, the complexities of relationships, doesn’t absolve men of the obligation to be present for their kids. If anything, it requires that men acknowledge, accept, and act with the knowledge that every female is not an able/willing recipient of their seeds and that their obligations as parents don’t end at any stage. Welcome to the DARK side, lol.
“doesn’t absolve men of the obligation to be present for their kids”
I will say he met his financial obligations, as best he could. (Getting laid off in 1995 and living in NoVA and trying to find another blue-collar job that paid somewhat well turned out to be difficult. I think one of my dad’s worst decisions was to move to NoVA, specifically Manassas. That was probably the straw that broke the camel’s back as far as the marriage was concerned).
Additionally, after he passed away, I found that he had made all 3 of us beneficiaries on his 401k shortly after the divorce was complete. (That portion of his 401k my mother didn’t get; she mismanaged it and now has nothing left from it).
Furthermore, I had a conversation with one of his co-workers who told me that he always talked about his kids and expressed regret that he couldn’t have a relationship with them.
That’s not enough. I’m sorry you didn’t get more but, no, that’s NOT enough.
It isn’t, but I am happy for what I got and I do not hold anything against him.. he did the best he could, I think.
“but what you’re describing is why everyone shouldn’t birth and parent kids just because they manage to conceive.”
Couldn’t agree more!
One should review the book “Troubled” by Rob Henderson. When Henderson’s adopted parents divorced, his mother started living with a woman. Henderson described how his friends were envious because no strange men would be in Henderson’s childhood home.
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