There are a lot of votech and trade schools.
http://www.rwm.org/rwm/tf_cal.html California had nearly 2 million students in schools like that a couple of years ago. My state has programs where HS students can take classes in a variety of Trades for half days their JR and Sr year of HS. If students want a trade or tech education, there are lots of options available. However, they may still have to move away from home at 18, get an apartment and there is no assurance that their peers will be any more holy than the peers at university.
One thing my husband and I did automatically when we were first married is, when faced with work group, bible groups, any group where people started in complaining about their spouses (because believe me, men complain about their wives when they are with one another as well) we just automatically would say "Oh, my husband./wife never does that. In fact, last week he/she did (insert nice thing spouse did here)." It did two things. It reinforced our loving view toward our spouse and it often shut down the complaint session or moved it toward a more positive tone. Neither of us did this on purpose, nor did we know the other was doing it for quite a while, but it just was how we related to our marriage. If we had a complaint, we took it to our spouse. Now, that does not mean if a friend had a serious problem we weren't happy to listen, but the the guys complaining about petty stuff about their wives, or the gals complaining about petty stuff about their husbands-- what is the point.
It is very early. At this point in the process last time, Michele Bachman was the republican front runner and 8 years ago, it was Guiliani. Neither made it past winter.
Trump will flame out, eventually.
Is there any doubt that if Anna had been the person with the affairs, secret sex accounts, etc, that Josh would have sent her packing, condemning her with a Jezebel spirit and being held up as a sad victim, instead of being told that he should stand by her side no matter what and no matter how often she "slipped."
Oddly enough, no one ever had to tell me or teach me to respect my husband. I would never have married a man who I didn't already respect, or one I didn't love deeply. Nor would I have married a man who didn't respect and love me.
My marriage has always been awesome, from the start and through the years.
I love "Clutters Last Stand" and also would recommend Speed Cleaning by Jeff Campbell.
The age of consent has consistently been going up. In many western countries any punishment was reserved for men with the wrong social connections who had sex with girls 11 or younger. The flogging wasn't happening if the man was powerful, richer than the girl, a slave owner or the 'master of the house' and she was a servant, or in general if he was higher up the social ladder. Do you have any documentation of all this flogging you are discussing, as I'd love to see it.
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The assumption is clearly that all wives are petty and manipulative and bent on making their husbands miserable. I don't see that in my life or in the lives of most of the people I know. It just seems so insulting to both women and men to portray marriage in general in this way.
"If you don't love me enough to trust me and to let me live my own life, then do you really love me? Or do you simply love yourself more and want to protect that love of self by using control? Selfishness is self seeking and love seeks the best interest of another in good times and in bad, and until death do us part."
I think this goes both ways and can be abused by both wives and husbands. Any partner who feels they must live walking on eggshells should examine to see if they are in an abusive relationship. Not all abuse is physical, it can be abusive and emotional.
I would also suggest that frankly, instead of worrying about if your husband will treat you well or if he will "not put up with your antics" and raising your daughters to marry a man who won't put up with antics, perhaps raise your daughters not to view "antics" as a part of an adult person's life.
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