I Believe In Traditional Roles Within Marriage

The 1937 Irish Constitution provided:

1. The State, therefore, guarantees to protect the Family in its constitution and authority, as the necessary basis of social order and as indispensable to the welfare of the Nation and the State.

2. In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.

3. The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.

4. The State pledges itself to guard with special care the institution of Marriage, on which the Family is founded, and to protect it against attack

5. No law shall be enacted providing for the grant of a dissolution of marriage.

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SteelHands · 61-69, M

Marriage as it stands today is deserving of ridicule.

A woman can marry a man for the sole purpose of using him to give her the children she wants, then dissolve the marriage at her whim.

Presenting a man homeless, with a court ordered consfiscation of assets. Plus bills to pay to support the children and babysitting duties for kids that are being taught another mans values and traditions under the guise of visitation. Appealing to his sentiments.

It's becoming a scam.

A game. One that the well off, emotionally vacant bridezillas, and bearded phonies looking to put up a front of respectability insist must include the divorce option.

While I agree divorce is a needed thing I believe that courts issue them so readily the it has rendered marriage practically meaningless in the legal sense.

beckychandler · F

@SteelHands "as it stands now" -- isn't that the point? The victims of divorce ideology number in the tens of millions -- they are men & women -- but above all -- children. Pretending that marriage is just another contract was bad enough, but then they made it into the only type of contract which a party can breach without a penalty -- at least no penalty on the breacher -- but often a severe penalty on the other party --but a penalty most of all on a third party -- the children. And just ripping the base of society apart --because as the Irish Constitution said --the family is the basic unit of society.

SteelHands · 61-69, M

@beckychandler

Absolutely. The interests of the family come first.

The penalty for abandoning the partner is the same as the one who abandons family.

Anyone that wants to leave the family surrenders custody rights and any other claims.

If you have plenty of money and good legal help that's how it works.

And if you both do it can cost a fabulous price just to retain your dignity.

It's not too surprising that people who have lots to lose kill one another over this.

Kathryn05 · 41-45, F

Very few other countries are as wrapped up in Catholicism as Ireland. They still have open debate upon how to resolve the abortion issue now.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

Primitive. It took them until '95 to legalize divorce 😂

beckychandler · F

@QuixoticSoul Catholic and traditional --supportive of traditional marriage. Which, of course, you construe as "primitive" and apparently get a good laugh over.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@beckychandler Oh, if you want to have a traditional marriage, more power to you. I've done the whole provider + stay at home woman thing myself, I know it can be lovely and rewarding. But yes, constitutional prohibition of divorce is primitive and deserves ridicule.

Saudis are traditional too - and primitive.

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