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In reply to the discussion: Why do people have kids with their boyfriends/girlfriends? [View all]Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)You think that marriage makes a person love you, respect you, treat you right?
You think that piece of paper has magical properties?
That sounds like fundamentalists who just can't stand the idea of people having sex without a state-issued screwing license, because they think God gets mad. It's fetishizing a piece of paper.
You think that an unmarried couple will pay their child support obligations less often than a couple who are formerly married??? You must not be a lawyer. It's no different suing an unmarried person for child support than it is for suing an ex-spouse, except that divorces are messy, traumatic and very expensive.
Which fantasy world are you living in? Women have to pay child support too.
Guess you've never been married to someone who treated you with contempt and didn't respect you or their marriage vows to love, honor and cherish. I was married to two people who lied in front of the minister or the judge and guests and promised to love, honor and cherish, and did none of the above. In fact, actively hated my guts although I did nothing to invoke their anger.
It's hard being a divorced single parent just as it is being a never-married single parent.