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Could you give some more insight on this?

• Podgajski 3y ago
  If you ever been poor, you don’t understand the stress that money puts on a relationship. And that’s just to start with. Poverty also increases stress which increases a likeliness to use drugs to combat the stress. Also, as other people pointed out, it’s most times more economic feasible for people in poverty not to get married because they would be penalized by getting married. Poverty causes stress and stress causes aberrant behavior. I might qualify this to say that poverty without spirituality causes fatherlessness.
  • tomcar288 3y ago
    if poverty is the cause of divorces/families breaking up then why does the US (a developed country) have one of the highest divorce rates?
    • Podgajski 3y ago
      Because most people who seem wealthy have a lot of money issues as well. And divorce is not only caused by poverty. For example, Christianity looks down on divorce and there are fewer Christians in the US. But this proves the lead point that fatherlessness does not cause crime, poverty does.
  • lostlogin 3y ago
    > I might qualify this to say that poverty without spirituality causes fatherlessness. That’s a bold statement.
    • Podgajski 3y ago
      I know, right? It’s bold to say that not focusing on materialism as the route to happiness could mean that people in poverty might not suffer as much.