For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 15, 2016

I’m not the son of a divorcé (more of a widower), but it sure is hard for children.

Regarding the comments from yesterday … with Eve always getting the blame for the fall of man … that’s not true. Eve was deceived. It was Adam who sinned willingly. So there.

I was 8 when dad left us. I don’t wish that life on my worse enemy.

Don’t blame Adam or Eve, blame God. What a set-up – punishing them for something they did BEFORE they had the knowledge of good and evil. That’s just appalling parenting.

We seem to be twins. I too wished my parents divorced because of the yelling, screaming, abuse from my mother. I would have begged my father to take me with him even if I had to sleep in a closet on the hard floor. He might not have drunk himself into an early grave.

So now you’re complaining women get paid more than men.

Children can endure a lot more than they should have to. I was 7 when my schizophrenic mother stopped me on my way to bed. She said she was leaving my alcoholic father and asked whether I was going with her or with Dad… just that suddenly. What a world.

My daughter once told me that she was an oddball at school. She lived in the same house with both her mother and her father.

Poor Lizzie! :’(

society blames women and men for different “faults” when it is the concept of marriage “til death” that is the cause of problems. people change.

some marriage need to be undone. there are children’s lives at stake. divorce can be for the “good” of the children.

otherwise hate fester and love dies

My son has expressed the same recently. He couldn’t imagine life without his mommy and daddy together.

You all know that today’s strip will set off a long “woe-is-me” diatribe from a certain contributor, later today, don’t you ?

Personally, my folks were of a generation that stayed together, regardless. Their religion with it’s sacrament of marriage doctrine, prohibited divorce. My late brother divorced and got remarried in the Church many years later but not without jumping through humongous ecclesiastical hoops.Since I am now happily married to wife #4, I am not exactly in a position to criticize anyone’s marital misadventures.

For me different. My dad was prior married that then wife had stepped out and cheated on him he had two boys with her they lived with her. He married my mom then had me then sibling short life of 45 years of marriage he was very content as mom created lot of great meals. My dad passed at young age of 79.

SPOILER ALERT

When Lawrence met his bio-dad in 1999, Dr. daSilva was a respected and wealthy doctor in Rio. He was in Canada to speak at a conference. Most of the story can be found on Lynn’s website (see link above) in the archives under the October, 1999 search.

I prayed that my mom would leave him and take us with her. When coming home from anywhere I prayed that his car wasn’t in the driveway. A tightwad who won’t work is worse than having a drunk for a parent.

My father told me that being a husband and father is not something to be taken lightly; it is a life-changing decision, and that everyone will be watching me. However, he did say there was a piece of paper that can get me out of my family responsibilies, and no one would judge me for it.Me: Oh really Dad! You mean in this day and age all I need is that piece of paper? What is it formally called?Dad: Your death certificate.

Nice way of making every kid that reads this strip with divorced parents feel bad…..

Who would you choose?Was “none of the above” an option?

Kids are very sensitive to disunity:One time the wife and I got into a fake fight, ieYou were right and I was wrongNo, I was wrong and you were right -Just the raised voices upset the little one!(less than 1 1/2 years to the 50th)

You might want to read JanCinLV’s comment, the second after yours, then consider your horrible racist stereotype.

Some people think a quarter is greater than a third because everyone knows that four is bigger than three.

In an advanced class at high school, where all the kids were above average, we took an informal poll. Only 6 kids didn’t have divorced parents. This from 22 kids! Maybe it makes you smarter :)

The first couple of divorces were rough on my brothers and me, but at about 9y.o. I realized that my mother kept marrying men only one rung from the bottom of the human cesspool. After that I quit paying attention to the men in our life.

It took a supernatural entity to tempt Eve. For Adam, it only took a woman.

Unfortunately, it didn’t. Fortunately, it was long after Lizzie was an adult (as well as [spoiler alert] her younger sister April).

“Promise me that everything’s gonna stay exactly the way it is forever and ever.”.No can do. You’re gonna grow up. (In fact, one day you’ll get married, too.)

so sweet :3

What Greg is doing for his wife and stepson is commendable. As for Lawrence’s true father, just wait until it is time for Lawrence to go to college. Three guesses who will paying the tuition. If you guessed Connie or Greg, you are wrong.

Oh, darn, am I late for therapy again?

A very telling last panel….in the end they WILL get divorced (don’t say the strip is not her real life, we all know it is). I wonder if she even felt inklings of it when this strip was written in, what, 1987?