If the mothers were initiating divorces and now aren’t, they’re staying in bad relationships because they don’t want the fathers getting more time with the kids, either out of concern or malice.
If the fathers were initiating divorces, they’re staying in bad relationships to force the mothers to care for the kids or otherwise avoid them.
Am I missing a possibility? The divorce rate going down sounds good initially, but if it’s going down because of a policy that affects the people after the divorce, that just sounds like people who should be getting divorced are staying together instead.
That’s… kind of ominous.
If the mothers were initiating divorces and now aren’t, they’re staying in bad relationships because they don’t want the fathers getting more time with the kids, either out of concern or malice.
If the fathers were initiating divorces, they’re staying in bad relationships to force the mothers to care for the kids or otherwise avoid them.
Am I missing a possibility? The divorce rate going down sounds good initially, but if it’s going down because of a policy that affects the people after the divorce, that just sounds like people who should be getting divorced are staying together instead.