Lack of fathers root cause of violence
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You're correct a marriage won't save a bad relationship. You're also right that you don't have to justify your position.
If people see marriage as an excuse to have a massive party then they are misguided. It's probably why a lot a marriages fail as the routine afterwards can't compare to the excitement of the big day.
However, in my opinion people who have children should get married. Not for commitment, but for the good of the child. If they chose to get married for love or to show a greater commitment to themselves or their God(s) then I'm fine with that as well.
Me too.
Been with my good lady for over 17 years, we have three children (12, 8 and 18 months) we are fully committed to each other and we are pretty good parents with kids that know right from wrong.
I fail to see how getting married would improve our lives or how not being married is putting some kind of downer on it either....
Complete nonsense. Statistics don't make inferior parents. So I'm automatically an inferior parent because I'm not married just because the statistics say so? I never use these unless a situation warrants it but sorry
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Me too.
Been with my good lady for over 17 years, we have three children (12, 8 and 18 months) we are fully committed to each other and we are pretty good parents with kids that know right from wrong.
I fail to see how getting married would improve our lives or how not being married is putting some kind of downer on it either....
Do you expect to live forever? If not are you penniless?
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high five and an amen to you to brother lol
ah they keep harping on about bringing it back though.
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whats that got to do with the price of chips?
Im sure he has a will and the house is in joint names
job done
Me too.
Been with my good lady for over 17 years, we have three children (12, 8 and 18 months) we are fully committed to each other and we are pretty good parents with kids that know right from wrong.
I fail to see how getting married would improve our lives or how not being married is putting some kind of downer on it either....
Maybe because i haven't sleep much but wtf does that have to do with this
how does not wanting to be married = expect to live forever?
And more importantly how does not expecting to lvie forever = must be poor?
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The government say a lot of things
short of me sponging off the state im not going to see any benefit. Already pay 40% tax to fund the chavs
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Complete nonsense. Statistics don't make inferior parents. So I'm automatically an inferior parent because I'm not married just because the statistics say so? I never use these unless a situation warrants it but sorry
I am not talking about YOU.
Single parents are statistically more likely to separate than married parents. That would infer an inferior state.
Two parents with black hair are more likely to have a child with black hair but sometime you get a ginger.
So surely married parents are only better than unmarried parents IF the unmarried parents split up.
Just because unmarried parents are statistically more likely to break up, doesn't make them worse parents than married ones.
Complete nonsense. Statistics don't make inferior parents. So I'm automatically an inferior parent because I'm not married just because the statistics say so? I never use these unless a situation warrants it but sorry
Is education in this country so terrible that people are completely unable to understand statistics?
Statistics don't automatically make someone an inferior parent, what they do say is that, in a population of parents of a similar makeup, there are more bad unmarried parents than there are bad married parents.
Or alternatively, that, again from a population of similar makeup, the children of married parents are more likely to do well, less likely to be criminals and so on, compared to children of unmarried parents or single parents. This does not, in any way, mean that individual families, parents, children etc all fall into the average position.
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Maybe because i haven't sleep much but wtf does that have to do with this
how does not wanting to be married = expect to live forever?
And more importantly how does not expecting to lvie forever = must be poor?
Well if you accept that you are going to die at some point and you have assets you naturally want to do what you can to protect them for your family.
Naturally if you have no assets or are going to live forever this isn't a concern.
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Is that rhetorical?
Maybe because i haven't sleep much but wtf does that have to do with this
how does not wanting to be married = expect to live forever?
And more importantly how does not expecting to lvie forever = must be poor?
Inheritance tax exemption applies only to spouses and civil partners, not other forms of relationship.
What's that got to do with anything?
Both the good lady and I have wills if thats what you mean? it's all covered.
errr well of course single parents are more likely to separate, 100% more likely, as they already have broken up (or gotten divorced, or one has died) that's how they've become single parents
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No it isn't I'm afraid.
Only if they actually split up.
Someone's parent who has a genetic marker for early onset cancer that might kill them at 30 does not make them a worse parent than someone who is l going to be alive to see the child to adulthood.