The premises underlying your questions make no sense. If I decide I'd rather be a lawyer than a lithographer, does that make lithography a bad profession? If I decide I'd rather live in Washington, D.C., than Louisiana, does that make Louisiana a bad place to live?
Similarly, if I decide I don't want to be married to John Doe, that doesn't make John Doe a bad man.
If staying married is, ipso facto, evidence of a good marriage, then Libyans make the best husbands, followed by Georgians.
But in fact, we know that the inability to get a divorce due to antiquated legal systems and economic inequality traps women (and men) in bad marriages.
At least, I know that. Your opinion may vary.
Americans do have a high divorce rate, because we have the ability to get out of bad situations. Divorced people tend to remarry, and they remarry for love.
Not because their father put a shotgun to their head, not because they were betrothed at infancy to their cousin, not because their parents bought them a spouse, but because it's their free will. |
