Reply #113: Amen to that [View All]

[raccoon]

a marriage that lasts a long time doesn't & never did, necessarily indicate that it was a good marriage.

As you've pointed out, back then women had fewer options than they do today. For the most part, they just had to put up with whatever crap their husbands dished out.

And as for day care--women were basically on their own. If a woman worked, she had to line up her own day care, her mother, sister, neighbor, whatever.

Men, too, sometimes had to put up with crap then too, because of the stigma of divorce, "what it would do to the chidren," etc.

It would seem to me that as times get harder, people would be less likely to divorce because of money. True, stresses and strains are greater, but as finances get tighter it's more difficult to move out and set up housekeeping.