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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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.