Pittman to an article in the journal, Family Process.
Response to "The Death of 'Till Death Us Do Part': "Marriage in the 20th Century"
Frank S. Pittman, III, M.D.
used to be an extreme action, reserved for emergencies. Suddenly it has become the norm.
Pinsof’s family of the future would involve single mothers, now declared "normal"
(except every now and then) might set feminist hearts aflutter, but the reality is a disaster.
social efforts in "government as father" have not impressed.
on the needs of children rather than the wants of those afraid of adulthood.
help, and a lot safer to have around kids than the average stepfather or pass-through man of the night.
seen their fathers in the last year and they suffer.
popular. We can change things when we refuse to give up and call it "normal", "god’s will,"
higher than all other causes put together. Most children of divorce survive but do not recover.
They get along well enough to function but not well enough to achieve success in relationships.
than for first. Divorce clearly doesn’t teach them what they failed to learn the first time around.
while adults are delicate children who will surely be miserable if they don’t get their heart’s desire.
for the grownups and sure didn’t work for the children.
of our cousins the chimpanzees.
but children need them on their parenting team.
marriages and bad, and wreck either.
emergency. Normalizing divorce, even further than it has already been normalized, is a cruelty joke.