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conix, Bottom line is your bitterness denies others fulfillment. At least it would if you had your own way. Why would anyone deny happiness
with a partner of free and open mutual choice. Thank goodness 20 years down the track there will be fewer with your outmoded ideas.

Of course the nuclear family is great for those for whom it works. Some 50%
of marriages do end in divorce, eh. Oops, is actually worse than that:

Key Divorce Statistics in 2023

In 2021, a total of 689,308 divorces occurred across the 45 U.S. states that report this statistics.1 During that same year, 1,985,072 marriages occurred, making the U.S. marriage rate 6 per 1,000 people.[1]

Far more people get married over the course of each year than get divorced. These divorce statistics show what happens to marriages that end, and when and how couples decide to end them.

How Many Marriages End in Divorce?

So, what about the famous statistic that half of all marriages end in divorce? That’s true, but only when it comes to first marriages, half of which are dissolved. Second and third marriages actually fail at a far higher rate.[2]
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/divorce/divorce-statistics/

And as you surely know most child abuse occurs within family, or close friends.

More new info for you today, Australia's Father's Day is the first Sunday in September ..
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