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It shows they have no understanding of the feelings of children and the importance of parents in the lives of children.

Just witnessing a divorce between two highly paid professionals. It amazes me that the mother of the son is so ?>resigned to the fact that she won't be seeing her granddaughter anymore. Sad. But to her it's "atarimae".

Yes, the "clean break" is exactly right. No concept of still being friends as much as possible for the kids or just to be >decent humans. And sad that the divorced parent usually won't be at the wedding.

But things might change in 20 or 30 years.

Coming from a Western society in which I have witnessed many divorces and seeing the Japanese "clean break" I would argue that the Japanese way is better most of the time, especially the younger the children are.

You would be appalled at the amount of negativity and hate that surrounds families after a bitter divorce where the two parents have joint custody. I would argue that it's not in the benefit of a child to be in such environment. Even if parents end on amicable terms, I rarely see proper relationships between children and both parents, who try and raise the kid on different standards.

Plenty of kids benefited from joint custody I'm sure, but to say it's totally backwards in Japan is a stretch. I think it should be case by case, but you can't have a judicial system that supports both systems in full strength.

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