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Rob_Hugo@PortNWsay it ain't so....
i hope that the arrangment drawn out from the reading on The Yomiuri Shimbun were selectively taken by clay. i hope it wasn't a random sampling.
cause it was it. i mean, after reading these things, you get sample after sample of HORRIBLY irresponsible husbands. i hope this isn't the majority of marriages. i mean... well, we know that over half of marriages fail officially in the US (god knows how many unofficial ones do) but this is just absurd. reading failure after failure is extremely disturbing; even more so that the MAJORITY of these marriage failures involve EXTREMELY FAITHFUL WIVES and horribly disgusting husbands.
i also noticed another trend. women concerned about THEIR "selfish" deeds are generally more distressed (As evident since they wrote a letter) then the men, who are either
1. physically abusive
2. verbally abusive
3. watching tv and playing video games.... AND being verbally abusive
4. i'm gonna stop here.. but it gets worse i assure you
i mean there was that one case with the psycho lady who kicks her husband and makes him kneel.... ehm... yea, but that's seriously like the only case.
so lets just sum that reading up in one sentence:
bad husband ruins wife's hope of having successful marriage and fatherly role for their children.
a lot of the responses consisted of : "uhm.. lady... sometimes a relationship does not last until death...and we gotta cut it loose. don't worry life is more than that".
yea i bet. with the United States having over 50% failed marriages (i don't know japan's percentage), we should have a new cycle of life diagram.
that is, after high school / college graduation and finding a career, we should have marriage, raising kids, and then afterwards divorce. till death do us part my @**.
i'm finished venting. but seriously its messed up. faulty marriages usually trigger my anger buttons because too often we have irresponsible parents bringing children in and then say... "eh.. i change my mind". some of these kids can become scarred for LIFE; others will just hurt badly, so thats ok right?
>=[
i urge all of us to try to not make this mistake. statistically , not all of us are gonna make it, but i urge all of those who intend to marry to please be careful and think it through before you have children.
btw, i dind't mean to butcher guys in general. i'm only referring to cruddy husbands/fathers. =I[Edit by="afang on May 23, 1:32:02 AM"][/Edit]
AnonymousYes, I also agree that some of the distressed housewives might a little overboard in their complaints. But you also have to think of the way the column is structured in the paper. 1)Housewives have more time at home to read this type of articles, 2)those with problems will write to the newspaper, 3)and the most extreme/interesting letters are chosen by the editors. It's a simple problem from sampling. In my Statistics class in high school, my teacher told us of an example poll taken by Dear Abby. From their survey, it showed that majority of the Americans regret having kids. But a similar poll by another source showed that most of the Americans are happy with their kids. The big difference in results is because people who read Dear Abby are probably dissatisfied with their life one way or another, and those who are passionate about their answer to the poll will actually mail in their response. There are failing marriages in any country but there are also more successful marriages that are just not mentioned.