Archive for May, 2008

If you’re recently divorced you’ll love to have this ‘divorce magnet’ to display on your fridge. Of course, if you’ve just got divorced, chances are you’ll not have a fridge, but you could always stick the magnet on your car door as you sleep in it.

I might get one anyway. Getting a novelty fridge magnet is the first step to getting a fridge.

Clive Bellmore

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The Christian Post, that unbiased publication, has announced its disgust at the findings that 70% of Americans find divorce morally acceptable. Obviously the Christians are up in arms over the decay to society caused by the spectre of divorce.

The Bible bashing website states:

Respondents who identified themselves as “liberals,” “independents,” and “non-religious,” on the other hand, registered the highest number of responses that said divorce was “morally acceptable.”

It’s those awful ‘non-religious’ people who are OK with the whole idea of divorce.

Respondents who identified themselves as “conservative,” “religious,” or over 65 years in age were more likely to say that divorce was “morally wrong.”

In other words the stupid people said divorce was wrong. The educated people think that divorce is acceptable when a couple naturally grow apart. What gives?

The acceptability of divorce among Americans was ranked higher than all of the other 16 ethical issues surveyed – including the death penalty, gambling, pre-marital sex, homosexuality, abortion and medical research on animals. Additionally, divorce has risen faster in moral acceptability among Americans than any of the other ethical issues.

While the recent poll reveals a steady and alarming rise in the acceptability of divorce, more than 70 percent of Americans continued to rate suicide, cloning humans, polygamy, and “married men and women having an affair” as “morally unacceptable.”

This makes me angry. The Christian Post is trying to compare Divorce with Suicide and the Death Penalty, and saying that the acceptance towards divorce shows the moral decay of American society.

The imbeciles.

Clive Bellmore

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I’ve heard of women complaining when their husband’s look at another woman, but looking at your own wife’s face as grounds for divorce? Surely that’s taking the Michael?

A 50 year old Saudi woman, married for 30 years, would say different. She wants a divorce from her husband after the evil swine looked at her face. Some men are just pigs.

Apparently the man had lived with his wife for the last 30 years of their marriage, and had never even set eyes on her face. I wonder what attracted him to her in the first place? His wife was a follower of the tradition from her village, which is near Khamis Mushayt, that dictates that all women keep their faces veiled at all times, even in the presence of their husbands.

Last month, the poor chap at the centre of this divorce claim, decided he wanted to see who he’d been married to for the last third of a Century and took a peek under his wife’s veil while she slept. What a monster. Sadly he was a little too obvious with his efforts and woke up his wife, who now demands a divorce for his cruel, heartless behaviour.

The woman told a Saudi newspaper:

After all these years, he tries to commit such a big mistake.

Despite his efforts to apologise, she wants a divorce. Quite right too, after he’d looked at her face whatever next? Touching her knee, leaving the toilet seat up, sneezing? Who knows where his loutish behaviour will end. Best she leaves him now before he gets out of control.

Clive Bellmore

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This video from Bhangra Man highlights the plight of fathers in the UK who have to fight to see their children. It tells of how the child support agency and CAFCASS care only about the money you give and about how the mother should receive it.

Fathers are seen as cash cows for the impoverished single mothers, leading to many fathers committing suicide over the potential bankruptcy they face and the fact that they cannot see their children.

Clive Bellmore

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Divorce for some is an horrible thing, a torment filled experience best avoided. For others however, it’s a release. A way out of a loveless marriage.

Of course filing for divorce is time consuming and expensive, so it’s often better to get your wife to divorce you. But how? Below are some helpful tips guaranteed to get your wife to file for divorce, and if she doesn’t, she’s definitely not the sort of woman you want to divorce.

1. Get her sister pregnant, women tend to frown on this sort of thing
2. Get her mother pregnant, if the sister didn’t do the trick having a half brother by her husband will mess her up for good
3. Make a bonfire out of her clothes while slow roasting your wedding photos
4. Pick an affectionate name for her, along the lines of ‘fat slug’ and refer to her with that name every day
5. Video yourself having sex with her and make a website out of it, charging others to view it, turning her into an internet porn star before proudly showing her your work
6. Run her father over in your car, reversing back over his lifeless body just to make sure you nailed him
7. Work hard all day to provide money for her and her activities, while supporting her in everything she does (doesn’t sound like it would lead to divorce, but believe me it f***ing well does!)

Clive Bellmore

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John Cleese has had to sell his £8.25 million Santa Barbara home in order to pay his ex-wife the £75,000 he has been ordered to pay in temporary maintenance by a US court. Cleese claims that even though the divorce is going to be extremely expensive, it is worth every penny.

His soon to be ex-wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger, claims she hasn’t received a penny from the Monty Python star since their split. They were married for 15 years.

Cleese is still trying to see the funny side of things as he claimed he’d sent copies of his wife’s divorce claims to his former Python colleagues, suggesting their may be a reality TV show in there somewhere.

His wife claims that he earns £93,000 per month, which Cleese countered that it was only last year he enjoyed that amount of income due to Shrek 3 and a property investment that netted him £750,000.

But, even if John Cleese was earning £93,000 per month this year, how does that warrant getting £75,000 of that? That’s almost 80% of his income. For work that he has done. What has she done for 80% of John Cleese’s money?

Cleese claims his income now is around £55,000 per month, which means he is now losing money to his ex-wife. At that rate, he’ll be bankrupt in a few years. I hope he has a good lawyer, it looks like his wife is trying to rip him off.

Clive Bellmore

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As 40% of all marriages in the UK now end in divorce, the catholic church is stepping in to save the day. Gosh, how nice of them. About time eh? Now divorce will be a thing of the past!

The Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral held a special mass for couples this month where 650 happily married (yet catholic) couples gathered to praise Jesus and generally look down on people who live in sin and get divorced. The couples had a combined 43,000 years of married life behind them, but you can bet it felt like a lot more than that!

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor is hoping to warn of the dangers faced by society in people getting divorced, or not even getting married at all.

While it’s true that more divorces mean that more children experience family break ups, is it not worse that children live in a house filled with conflict and hate if parents stay together when they really should be apart? Catholics would disagree.

Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor claims that the threat to society face by divorces is a time-bomb that threatens the integrity of the whole British society. He went on to say that the breakdown of a marriage was ‘one of the greatest evils’. He really needs a reality check.

The effects of the break up of marriage can be seen because of drugs and crime. The effects of the break up of marriage can be seen because of drugs and crime. So many people are in prison…as the result of broken marriages. And it’s a time bomb because the effects are insidious. It’s starting now with divorce but its effects will go on and on.

This is why we shouldn’t let religious people have any say in the running of the country. They’re bound by what was written in a fairy story book and think it somehow gives us the laws with which to live our lives. Marriage is a religious concept, does it not surprise the Catholics that people who aren’t religious don’t feel the need to get married?

One of the couples at the mass, the O’Driscolls, think that the breakdown in marriages is usually due to people being unwilling to compromise and work out any problems.

When things go wrong it’s no good just brushing things aside. Just speak about it. If you leave it, it will only get worse.

Even though many marriage experts believe that a union of two people doesn’t necessarily require the act of marriage to survive, instead a long term relationship built on compromise and understanding would be better; Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor disagrees.

He would, churches have seen marriage numbers fall, which hits them in the pocket. The Cardinal claims that marriages blessed in church stand a better chance of success.

What utter garbage.

Society must have some sort of infrastructure. There’s an African saying…’you need a village to bring up a child’. Public policies should be judged on the basis of whether they help family life or not. If they do, they should be approved.

The church is suffering from recent developments in society such as the emergence of ‘civil partnerships’ and the decision to make the discrimination against homosexuals illegal. Both of these actions harm the church’s view of family life as they are both against the word of the bible.

Again, this is why the religious should be kept out of any decisions to do with running the country.

Clive Bellmore

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A father facing the prospect of losing his house due to the CSA enforcing a DEO (deduction of earnings order) on him for over £500 tried to explain the situation to them. They had already sent him correspondence to the wrong address so he hadn’t been able to reply to them when the demanded that his employer deduct the money from his pay, meaning he couldn’t pay for his and his ex-wife’s house.

His attempt to tell them about this fell on deaf ears as the woman cut him off. He was obviously very angry about this, so much so that he made this video of the phonecall and uploaded it to viral video site YouTube. He even animated the video himself using images of Paul McCartney and vicious ex Heather Mills.

Obviously by making the woman from the CSA out to be Heather Mills he’s pretty much assured himself of winning support, she is Britain’s most hated woman.

Clive Bellmore

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If you’re wondering whatever happened to family values, where the images of traditional families would dominate our TV screens, you can blame modern advertisers for mirroring real life. While some years ago we’d be bombarded with adverts depicting domestic bliss, such as the Ah Bisto family, these days we get domestic turbulence, step-dads, single mothers and break-ups.

All of it done with market research in mind, because the target audience for the products in the UK tends to be a similarly broken family. And why not, with 42% of British marriages now ending in divorce the advertisers need to aim at the single parent and the working mother.

Former Atomic Kitten and Wilmslow resident Kerry Katona is a perfect example. She’s a working single mother of four kids and she shops in Iceland. Despite all of her well publicised problems with her partner and other lifestyle ‘choices’ Kerry has just been signed up for another year as the face of Iceland. While you’d think that having someone so controversial might not sit well with the retailer, quite the opposite is true. Kerry’s controversy and constant appearances in the media spotlight have given the small retailer a much needed PR boost.

There’s no such thing as bad publicity after all.

Kerry fits the perfect British single mother stereotype, she’s had two marriages, kids with two different men, she works and she’s had personal troubles. All of this means the target audience for Iceland can identify with her, which is critical in advertising.

It’s certainly working for Iceland, as their market share has risen by 11.6% from last year, which is an impressive rise in a time when consumer spending down.

Clive Bellmore

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The global slump in the property market has caused an equal slump in the rate of divorces. Couples simply can’t afford to get divorced any more when there’s a matrimonial home in the mix. Selling their house will prove to expensive as the fall in prices means some of them will make a loss, which is forcing couples to stay together when they really can’t stand each other.

While the fall in property prices shouldn’t affect that many people, as it’s the same for everyone, couples looking to divorce seem to be the hardest hit.

Suzi Mohn is a couples and family therapist in the USA:

They are trapped.  They’re trapped!  It’s like putting a cat and a dog in a cage and say, here get along!

This means that couples are having to stay together under the one roof for financial reasons.

And it’s tough on kids, if you tell your kids mom and dad are getting a divorce and then they stay in the same house, it sends tremendous mixed messages and the children are going to be living in a situation probably with a lot of conflict.

Could this be a good thing? Could couples being forced to stay together for financial reasons actually mean fewer divorces in the long run as they have to learn to work together? I personally doubt that. When a marriage is over, it’s over. Being forced to live under the same roof because you can’t afford to divorce won’t benefit you, your spouse or certainly not your children.

Clive Bellmore

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