Note: There is a book by the same title by Jeffrey Leving – I am NOT reviewing Leving’s book.
I have always had a deep suspicion of divorce lawyers who claim to focus on a certain gender. These lawyers claim that the court system is biased against men or women. Although I have never been up against one of these “gender lawyers,” they have always struck me as unnecessarily adversarial.
Also, from my point of view, the law is the law. Either you know the law or you don’t. It is the same process if you are a father fighting for custody of his children than if you are a mother fighting for custody. The same motions need to be filed, the same procedure needs to be followed.
Thus, it was with a smirk that I picked up the book titled Fathers’ Rights by James J. Gross. I intended to flip through it, roll my eyes and pity the poor father who would take such a BS book seriously.
To my surprise the book is very good! I’ll review it over the next few days.
This has to be the weirdest lawyer video ever. I like it but have no idea what it is about. I would be intrigued to meet the people who made the video. Is this the idea? "Come for an initial consultation out of curiosity and then we'll convince you to hire us."
Alarmists cite the increasing divorce rate as a sign that we don’t take things seriously anymore. But – I wonder – could our increased life-spans be the cause of our high divorce rate?
Although I am no historian, it seems that the “unto death do us part” made sense in the old days when people died young. It made sense back when the average lifespan was 45. Back then, it was not unusual for women to die from childbirth or men to die from tuberculosis.
Due to the high mortality rate, it would not have been uncommon for someone to reach the ripe old age of 45 and have been married three times. Back then, all you had to do was wait for death to “part you” if you didn’t like your spouse. Then – if you weren’t the dead spouse – you could proceed to marry again!
Serial monogamy – the practice of entering one monogamous relationship after another – has been historically accepted for widow(er)s. Now, through our increased lifetimes, modern humans have the option of choosing if, when and how to separate from their mates.
Not bad, huh? Conclusion: Living longer gives us more choices.
I have always had a deep suspicion of divorce lawyers who claim to focus on a certain gender. These lawyers claim that the court system is biased against men or women. Although I have never been up against one of these “gender lawyers,” they have always struck me as unnecessarily adversarial.
The same affects in man and woman are yet different in tempo: therefore man and woman do not cease to misunderstand each other.