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Post by diamond.in.the.rough on Mar 3, 2002 22:13:00 GMT -5
I'm not exactly sure if this is where this belongs but...
My job is the Afterschool Program at the local YMCA. Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afterschool I watch 2 kids. One of them is a 1st grader and her name is Allison. The other day she asked me if I had a step-mom (she knows my mother because she also works at the Y). When I told her that no I only had the one mom she replied, 'I thought everyone had a step-mom.' Isn't that sad? I mean what does that say about the marraige rate here in the US and what it's doing to the kids?
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Post by LisaRocksYourWorld, yo on Mar 3, 2002 22:16:59 GMT -5
That's just what's normal to her. When you're that young, you don't realize that lifestyles vary, and you assume everyone is just like you. In the near future, she'll meet other kids and see other ways of living. Divorce is common, but there are still a lot of happy marraiges out there.
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Post by IAmMe on Mar 5, 2002 0:14:59 GMT -5
Break-ups have more than doubled between the 1960's and the late 1970's.
Over a million children are subjected to new divorces each year in America.
More than 40% of first marriages end in divorce.
The total number of divorced adults grew from 4.3 million in 1970 to 20 million today.
Married population dropped from 72% in 1970 to 60% today.
Russia is the divorce capital of the world, with 65% of all marriages ending in divorce, followed by Sweden, with 64%.
Clearly, the traditional happy-family structure of a dad, a mom, and however many brothers and sisters is disappearing gradually worldwide.
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Post by 1.gurl.revolution on Mar 21, 2002 15:27:39 GMT -5
yep. i have a step mom and my half sister (who i see monthly) is told often about my "other family" (as she puts it). she is getting the hang of it, but since she's only 6, i'm not expecting her to know all the details. hell, i'm 16 and i don't know all the details of the devorce and all that. and i don't want to know. but my sister knows that her mommy and my mommy aren't the same people. but we do have the same daddy's. and when i told her that and said "that's why we're sisters, but in a special way." she wants me and the whole world to know that she has two special sisters.  |
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Post by Mystic_gurl22 on Mar 31, 2002 2:55:57 GMT -5
thats sad. but she is young and probably didn't understand. everyone has a different life style.
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Post by Ich Liebe Rammstein on May 25, 2002 2:49:19 GMT -5
I agree with LisaRocksTheWorld. Kind of reminds me of (MY FAVORITE MOVIE -EVER-) where Jon Conner ( Edward Furlong...) says 'This is how I thought people lived,ya'know?? Shooting stuff,learning how to blow s* up' Because thats how he thought eveerone lived. The same with that little girl. She's used t having a step0mom,when your used to juz having one mother. Its still sad though. But it's liFe. ~~~~~~Heather,(Edward Furlong,Mike Shinoda,Chester Bennington,KidRock & Joe C. LOVER!!!!!! Linkin Park RULES!!!!!!) |
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Post by Ms.Thang_Has-It-All on Jun 3, 2002 22:29:57 GMT -5
Yeah, I agree. She's just isn't aware yet that pplz home life vary from family to family !
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Post by pettyluv on Jun 3, 2002 22:45:50 GMT -5
I agree that this is a very bad reflection on our society. It just goes to show the degradation of morality this country has experienced over the past half a century. We may have made technological leaps but we have taken steps back in the morality among the general populace.
I really think it is sad that nearly 50% of marriages fail in America today. I still find that hard to swallow, that so many marriages can end in divorce. With this recent explosion of divorce rates it shows the next generations that this type of behavior is perfectly acceptable and will probaly exhibit similar behaviors when they are adults. That is the problem.
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Post by DustInThewinD on Jun 23, 2002 14:00:50 GMT -5
I know a helluva lot of kids, and I only know one girl who's parents still live together (excluding mine). It really sucks, but who said life was fair.
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Post by www.sparkle.com on Jul 13, 2002 15:14:51 GMT -5
It just depends on what the parents of the kid tell them, since they aren't young enough to understand it themselves.
My biological father wanted nothing to do with me when I was born - I've never seen him, I know nothing about him. My mom told me that I didn't have a dad. So for a long time I went on thinking that a child didn't need a mother and a father to be born.
Obviously now I know otherwise, but yeah.
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Post by 1.gurl.revolution on Jul 25, 2002 15:25:07 GMT -5
^that's so sad^. but marrages don't always end because parents aren't in love anymore. if you look at some of the talk shows, a lot of women (and men) are being abused, the parents married when they were 17 because the woman was pregnant and that was the "only way" to keep everyone happy, it's not just about money, hopes, and dreams, it's also about selfishness, stupidity, and anger.
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Post by Audrey on Nov 12, 2002 13:14:51 GMT -5
My best friends Tasha and Mandy's parents are divorced and they hate to even talk about it. But, I can see how it can bring up pain.
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