Utah lawmaker targets women with new divorce barriers so men aren’t ‘surprised’
Ugh. That should make women in abusive marriages feel really safe. Given Utah is the next best thing to a theocratic state we have in the USA, it brought to mind my own sister who was abused for years and finally one day found courage to leave. Then she went to talk to their helpful fundamentalist pastor who talked her into reconciling and went on to continue to be abused for many more years to come. You should have the freedom to walk away from a bad marriage.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/25/utah-lawmaker-targets-women-with-new-divorce-barriers-so-men-arent-surprised/
Utah lawmaker targets women with new divorce barriers so men aren’t ‘surprised’
By David Edwards
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 16:20 EST
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Utah state Rep. Jim Nielson (YouTube)
Utah state Rep. Jim Nielson (R) says that he is sponsoring a bill to force divorcing couples to take classes because he says that men are often “surprised” when women want to end the marriage.
The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that Nielson had filed a bill that would require couples to take part of mandatory divorces classes even sooner than the law required when Utah became the first state with the mandate in 1994. Nielson would like to see couples take at least half of the $55 two-hour classes at the beginning of divorce process.
While Nielson told The AP that he hoped the classes would reduce the divorce rate in Utah, he was even more specific about his goals earlier this month on an Internet show called DadsDivorce.com.
“The friends that I have that have gone through a divorce, most of the people that I know personally that have gone through that personally are men,” Nielson explained to host Matt Allen. “And my sense, at least from the men that I interact with, is that they’ve usually been surprised by the divorce request, by the filing.”
The lawmaker pointed out that most men were in “the position of the respondent, and the ones that I know generally have also been greatly distressed by it, wished that there had been an opportunity to reconcile and to find a way to reconcile.”
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it's exactly the same tactic as "abortion counseling", and they may make this a reality too.
I cannot tell you how many times I tried to get my ex to go to counseling and he refused repeatedly. To this day, he claims to anyone who will listen that he had no idea I was unhappy and that I never gave him a chance. 
This, my friends, is called ego. 
the site he did the interview with has direct links to MRA sites.
