What the hell am I doing here? Why am I living in Idaho? Washington is only eight miles away. Perhaps it's time to move. I'm worried that there's something in the Idaho air that's making us . . . well, stupid. When I moved here, Cecil Andrus was Governor. Larry LaRocco was our Congressman. Larry Echohawk was our Attorney General. It's been all downhill since then. Frank Church is dead, and we will never see his like in Idaho again.
Perhaps we should have the state capital tested for lead-based paint and, if we find it, ban law-makers from licking it.
Good post, Sara. I appreciate your pointing out how such neanderthal thinking can adversely impact men as well as women.
I really thought that this concept that society's ills can be remedied by preventing people from divorcing was waning. (Sorry to hear it's not in Idaho.) Anybody who spends a day in family court will tell you that the system is bogged down enough trying to keep kids' lives stable and supported and dividing up the debts once the marriage has ended. No one I know in family law would ever want to go back to the days of determining fault as the basis of divorce and backing up the blame with financial consequences. My job is difficult and sordid enough without having to deal with cheating, withholding of sex, and those other lovely bastions of the at-fault era. Of course wealthy people could just do the same thing they did in the old days--take an extended vacation to Vegas or Mexico and come back 200 lbs lighter (by losing the spouse). As is the case with most morality laws, it would affect the poor disproportionately.
-A family law attorney from California
Around the time between Evans & Andrus, my husband, who is from Emmett, was the stay at home parent or our preschooler and infant in Moscow. It may be a rising trend, but a stay at home father isn't anything new, not even in Idaho.
This just astounds me, that we actually VOTED these inane men into office.
Are they seriously thinking that targeting the symptoms of a problem will make it go away? Making divorce harder to obtain will only lead to married couples living apart when/ if they can't hack it anymore... and so much for the single parent remaining (usually Mom) being able to seek assistance from the other via child support. And if daycare centers are unregulated, it won't keep parents from using them out of necessity- no, eventually we'll just have a whole new set of problems arising from neglected or abused little ones who've been at the mercy of workers taking advantage of that.
Arggh.
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