To the editor: Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance stated his grandparents stayed “collectively till the tip, until loss of life do us half,” regardless of his grandmother’s try and hasten that finish by setting her drunken and abusive husband on fireplace. Nonetheless, Vance compares his grandparents favorably to couples who divorced if their marriages were violent.
“It actually didn’t work out for the children of these marriages,” Vance stated in 2021. “That’s what all of us needs to be sincere about.”
Vance is lifeless unsuitable. Following a 25-year research, psychologist Judith Wallerstein concluded, “Kids raised in extraordinarily sad or violent intact properties face distress in childhood and tragic challenges in maturity.”
As your article notes, Vance has expressed help for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s family-friendly insurance policies. He neglects to say that these insurance policies have been a part of a bundle that included making it not possible for same-sex {couples} to undertake kids — regardless of clear proof that kids raised by homosexual dad and mom do in addition to these raised by heterosexual {couples}, and the truth that adoption is way preferable for youngsters in contrast with rising up with out a nuclear household.
We all know what tends to “work out for teenagers,” and Vance’s prescriptions don’t.
Claude Goldenberg, Seal Seashore
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To the editor: Apparently Vance doesn’t acknowledge that married girls had no authorized proper till 1974 to open a checking account on their very own, or to use for a bank card or mortgage. Strive shopping for a home with out a mortgage.
And, earlier than 1969, divorces have been fault-based in California. Strive acquiring custody of kids with a male-dominated authorized system of getting to show your price.
Girls have been economically and legally tied to their husbands, which doubtless impacted many choices on whether or not or to not go away a “violent” partner or “chaotic” household.
Is it an excessive amount of to ask that Vance concentrate on providing further monetary and emotional help to kids of divorce, as an alternative of advocating that girls keep married even when not of their finest pursuits or one of the best pursuits of the youngsters?
Susan Perlson, Brea
