{"id":78146,"date":"2015-10-30T12:38:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T20:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78146"},"modified":"2015-10-30T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T20:38:18","slug":"the-reason-women-initiate-70-of-divorces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78146","title":{"rendered":"The Reason Women Initiate 70% Of Divorces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/heartiste.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/30\/the-reason-women-initiate-70-of-divorces\/\">From the Chateau<\/a>: The divorce rate and the female fertility rate, if superimposed, are practically IDENTICAL. Divorce is, to a great degree, a function of a woman\u2019s sexual desirability and her options in the sexual market. The more romantic attention from desirable men a young wife can command, the more unstable her marriage.<\/p>\n<p>If stable marriages are a noble societal goal, then encouraging later marriages would work to lower the divorce rate. But, this strategy also works to lower the marital fertility rate, as older mothers have fewer children than younger mothers. Plus, beta males with rising SMV (sexual market value) don\u2019t much like marrying road worn and put away hard women in their 30s, and they won\u2019t if they don\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n<p>A better social strategy would be to instruct young men in the ways of seducing women \u2014 both premaritally and maritally \u2014 so that they can better tame and redirect their young wives\u2019 hypergamous compulsions to themselves and away from alpha male interlopers. Still another possibility is pairing off younger wives with older husbands, for a balanced SMV match. Or, removing the disincentives to stay married that have become part of divorce and family laws.<\/p>\n<p>(FYI, women will always receive the bulk of child support, and child custody, because women are naturally disposed to the task of child-rearing in a way that men aren\u2019t. Most men don\u2019t much like the drudgery of child-raising, but for that minority of ex-husbands and fathers who crave the joys of being a full-time dad, the family court system should be reformed to better sympathize with their needs.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Chateau: The divorce rate and the female fertility rate, if superimposed, are practically IDENTICAL. Divorce is, to a great degree, a function of a woman\u2019s sexual desirability and her options in the sexual market. 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