tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6905236167079601771.post2226198221116558538..comments2023-12-25T11:13:04.495+00:00Comments on Seraphic Singles: The End of Parents?Seraphichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06251504033428511090noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6905236167079601771.post-46657231371812658302012-08-14T17:36:33.446+01:002012-08-14T17:36:33.446+01:00Relevant article.<a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_family-breakdown.html" rel="nofollow">Relevant article</a>.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03610038094754958630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6905236167079601771.post-64988497010646212862012-08-14T08:06:06.270+01:002012-08-14T08:06:06.270+01:00Yes, Theobromophile, that's what I was thinkin...Yes, Theobromophile, that's what I was thinking, although I don't seem to have actually come out with that sentence. <br /><br />The permanent (or long-term) social, financial and sexual bond between one man and one woman we call marriage is IMPORTANT. <br /><br />And the "wicked stepmother" of our age has got to be "Mum's new boyfriend." Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6905236167079601771.post-7581205379591464892012-08-14T05:29:03.845+01:002012-08-14T05:29:03.845+01:00Sounds like none of the women involved had reliabl...Sounds like none of the women involved had reliable men in their lives. The grandmother is 46, the mother 30, so the grandmother was a teen mom herself. The mother had the poor murdered daughter at 18. Sad situation, but it's common.:-(okiegrlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6905236167079601771.post-72034944660799525432012-08-14T05:22:11.622+01:002012-08-14T05:22:11.622+01:00May I be both really traditional and forward-think...May I be both really traditional and forward-thinking? <br /><br />It is great when the children of divorced/never-married/widowed parents can spend time with their married-to-each-other grandparents. This does a lot to dampen the negative social effects associated with not being raised by both of your parents (although, for the record, not all single parent homes are the same, and never-married homes are the worst). <br /><br />Pray tell, to whom will the little kids of the next generation turn to for stability, an example of lifelong matrimonial love, and a welcoming home? Susie may be able to take Johnny to her mum and dad for raising, but when Johnny fathers a baby out of wedlock, who does that kid look to? Not Susie - she never married Johnny's father.<br /><br />We have yet to see the long-term effects from successive generations of never-married parenting. My own prediction is that the second generation will have it worse than the previous, and we already know what a train wreck non-marital childbearing is. <br /><br />~theobromophile<br /><br />(P.S. I hate the term "partner," precisely because it diminishes the husband-wife bond by equating it with a non-marital bond. And from the "Don't ask me how I know this" file, but be really leery if your spouse's friends introduce you as your spouse's "partner.")<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6905236167079601771.post-15278358718763625622012-08-13T20:02:09.817+01:002012-08-13T20:02:09.817+01:00"Partner" in UK English is a really fasc..."Partner" in UK English is a really fascinating word. In the US (in my experience) the word excludes a spouse. If I refer to my "partner" in a social sense (i.e. not a business partner) the first assumption would be that I am talking about a lesbian lover, or a man whom I am living with but not married to. "Partner" and "spouse/husband/wife" are mutually exclusive, at least if you're at a party and saying "This is Alex my ______".<br /><br />In the UK it is very much not so, and I think I have seen examples of "partner" for "spouse" quite a long time before you would expect an influence from the gay rights crowd. I think it's interesting that the OED gives the definition for this sense as "A person who is linked by marriage to another, a spouse; a member of a couple who live together or are habitual companions; a lover."<br /><br />I, too, have been following the tragic Tia Sharp story and had a bad feeling as soon as I saw that the granny's partner was the last to see her alive. Oh no, oh no.Jamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076215213828545013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6905236167079601771.post-45091878460622245082012-08-13T19:44:06.509+01:002012-08-13T19:44:06.509+01:00I have been following this story since it broke la...I have been following this story since it broke last week. The grandmother's partner used to date the victim's mother. I would argue that the tell-tale signs were present all along and that women need to be more vigilant. We are so vulnerable and the fact that he went from mother to grandmother to daughter (TBD, my conjecture at this point) is really disturbing.Shannonnoreply@blogger.com