Wisconsin Lawmaker Says Women Should Stay in Abusive Marriages

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Wisconsin Lawmaker Says Women Should Stay in Abusive Marriages
By Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine | Love + Sex*–*Fri, Mar 16, 2012 7:27 PM EDT


A Wisconsin lawmaker says women should stay in abusive marriages.
In Wisconsin -- yes, the same state where lawmakers have introduced a bill penalizing single mothers for being unmarried -- a Republican state representative has come out against divorce for any reason -- even domestic abuse.

Instead of leaving an abusive situation, women should try to remember the things they love about their husbands, Representative Don Pridemore said. "If they can re-find those reasons and get back to why they got married in the first place it might help," he told a local news station.

Pridemore -- who, coincidentally, is a co-sponsor of Republican state Senator Glenn Grothman's "being single causes child abuse" bill as well as a controversial voter ID bill that was ruled unconstitutional earlier this week -- also said that while he thinks women are capable of caring for a family "in certain situations," fathers are the only ones who provide structure and discipline. If they don't grow up with married biological parents, Pridemore says, "kids tend to go astray."

Grothman, for his part, continues to defend his controversial bill. Now, though, not only is single parenthood a factor in child abuse, women in particular are to blame for it.

"There's been a huge change over the last 30 years, and a lot of that change has been the choice of the women," Grothman said.

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I cannot believe these men are supposed to represent my state. I'm am both angry and, as a single mom (NOT from an abusive relationship) I am incredibly offended.

[shedevilang]

WTF!!!!!!!!!! What fucking century are we in! I am so sick of these women hating fucking politicians

[Novice]

So..... He's trying to stop his wife from leaving him the only way he knows how?

[sputnik]

of course he's a republican.

[A*O]

He's an idiot of course but there's a LOT of women who do stick around for reasons that still baffle me.

[Laurent]

He might as well just summarize with "I hate women," because that's what he's saying.

[McJag]

I would like to abuse him badly!

[Seth82]

what a jackass

[greysfang]

**head explodes**

[MontanaMama]

He might as well just summarize with "I hate women," because that's what he's saying.

Or, perhaps, summarize with "I never got laid in high school or college and I'm still bitter about it." cuz that's all I'm reading here.

[Tati]

Ok, seriously - what in the actual FUCK is fucking going ON?!

[twitchy2.0]

Dark Ages 2.0

[Sarzy]

Some parts of America are sounding not far off the middle east. Backwards as hell.

[Brookie]

How do these people even think this shit up anyway? Do they stay up all night dreaming about the best ways to piss their constituents off? Fathers are the only ones who provide structure and discipline? Are you fucking kidding me?

[Lobelia]

Or, perhaps, summarize with "I never got laid in high school or college and I'm still bitter about it." cuz that's all I'm reading here.

I think you're wrong. This guy is hot and ooooozes SEX.