Divorce’s Effect on Men

BestLife magazine just did a great article on divorce and men. It’s about how devastating divorce is to men relative to women — especially later in life where it often comes as a complete surprise to the man.

The article is called Sudden Divorce Syndrome and I highly suggest you check it out if you are 1) married, or 2) know someone who’s married (that should cover everyone).

This is a particularly sensitive topic for me as I’ve personally seen many of my male friends crushed by divorce. Here’s a quote:

“Think of it,” says Stephen Baskerville, president of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, in Washington, D.C. “A father could be sitting in his own home, not agreeing to a divorce, not unfaithful to his marriage vows, and not abusive, and the next thing he knows, the court has taken his house, his children, and a lot of his money, and then forced him to pay his wife’s legal fees and even her psychologist’s fees. And he can be threatened with jail time if he resists.”

And people ask me why I’ve waited all this time to get married…

[ Sudden Divorce Syndrome ]