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You don't think they have the right to have an opinion? How tolerant.

Everyone doesn't have to "live under" it, you don't have to get married.

I suspect having Mummy and Daddy being together "until further notice" would have disastrous impacts on children's sense of permanence and development.

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That is defacto reality. If every kid at least knows a kid from a divorced family the damage to the sense of permanence of the family unit has already been done.

Not necessarily. I knew people from different families who were divorced, but rationalized that my parents were different and more committed, and so still just accepted it as an axiom that families stay together (except when they don’t).

While obviously not that consistent, as a kid I perfectly accepted that logic. If I try to place myself in that same mindset, I think I’d find the definition of “marriage is together until further notice” far more concerning than knowing some divorced parents.

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