I considered posting this in the Lounge but decided this would be a more suitable location.
In recent decades, there's been a lot of very warranted discussion about people leaving college with ever-increasing amounts of debt. However, a generation or two, there was a phenomenon known as "Ph.T" or "Put Hubby Through" Nowadays, that would just as likely be "Pw.T" or "Put Wife Through" - and the divorce rates for these marriages were astronomical. In short, these (usually) men were just using their (usually) wives for the paycheck, and cut them loose as soon as they weren't needed for that purpose any more. I should add that the first time I heard of someone doing that, it was a woman who used her husband in this manner to pay her way through veterinary school, and presented him with divorce papers within a week of graduation. She readily admitted that this really was what happened, too.
Wow.
I live in a city that has a college of chiropractic, and years ago, I worked with a woman who, in her younger years (this would have been the 1970s) worked with a lot of women who were convinced that their doctor husbands were going to lead them to a life of luxury; instead, probably 90% of them ditched their wives shortly after graduation, and if they had children (a huge percentage did), they almost always signed away their rights to them, and walked away as if the kids had never existed. She did add that all of those women were the type who had "ABUSE ME" practically stamped on their foreheads. I sure wouldn't want someone like that treating me, that's for sure.
Has anyone else witnessed this kind of thing where you live and/or go to school?
In recent decades, there's been a lot of very warranted discussion about people leaving college with ever-increasing amounts of debt. However, a generation or two, there was a phenomenon known as "Ph.T" or "Put Hubby Through" Nowadays, that would just as likely be "Pw.T" or "Put Wife Through" - and the divorce rates for these marriages were astronomical. In short, these (usually) men were just using their (usually) wives for the paycheck, and cut them loose as soon as they weren't needed for that purpose any more. I should add that the first time I heard of someone doing that, it was a woman who used her husband in this manner to pay her way through veterinary school, and presented him with divorce papers within a week of graduation. She readily admitted that this really was what happened, too.
Wow.
I live in a city that has a college of chiropractic, and years ago, I worked with a woman who, in her younger years (this would have been the 1970s) worked with a lot of women who were convinced that their doctor husbands were going to lead them to a life of luxury; instead, probably 90% of them ditched their wives shortly after graduation, and if they had children (a huge percentage did), they almost always signed away their rights to them, and walked away as if the kids had never existed. She did add that all of those women were the type who had "ABUSE ME" practically stamped on their foreheads. I sure wouldn't want someone like that treating me, that's for sure.
Has anyone else witnessed this kind of thing where you live and/or go to school?