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Strategies & Market Trends : The Millennium Crash -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: onurbius who wrote (5326)	6/11/2000 11:43:00 AM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5676

onurbius-- >>>...and the single parent (by choice) career oriented mothers...<<< onurbius-- I think they question you have to ask yourself is, "Why women make this choice?" Educated women know that 50% of first marriages in the U.S. end in divorce...roughly 60% of remarriages end in divorce. It is not uncommon for a divorcing couple to spend $30,000 in legal fees alone. Both parties often end up broke. It's a well known fact that women and children suffer a decline in standard of living following a divorce while men experience an increase. And then there's that nagging 380,000 number of women stalked by a husband or ex-husband every year (52,000 men stalked by a wife or ex-wife.) If what you really want is children and there's a 50% chance that you might end up a single parent anyway (and "broke" to boot) take your half of the $30,000 in legal fees and head straight for the adoption agency or sperm bank. Chalking it up to "spiritual poverty" doesn't address the hard "choices" some women are making. If you ask them whether be "happily married with children" I'm certain you'd get a resounding "Yes!" It's the "happily married" part which is 50% fantasy and they know it...so they head straight for the "with children" part. There's a great deal of cost benefit analysis going on here. Many women don't much like the odds. And many women also realize that the 50% of non-divorced couples would hardly ascribe the adjective "happy" to their marriage. (Take a look at this month's June 2000 Smart Money Magazine for more fun facts on divorce.) Over the past five years I went through this kind of CBA with a friend of mine who is a business analyst. She still hung onto the "happily married" fantasy even after watching numerous couples divorcing and taking a long and hard at her own parents' marriage. She remains single and now has a beautiful adopted daughter.