- is doing so good these days. Swelling is way down, she's on a high Canones dose of vitamin c which I've learned can be very beneficial for dogs living with cancer. Not sure if that's why she's been so great for the past month, but whatever the reason I'm happy (as is she!) She's off her pain meds, eager to get up and go in the mornings, and full of sass at work especially in the afternoons when she bosses everyone around to give her more treats. :) I my girl. Maybe she'll be making snow angels with me this. On the 31st she and I be celebrating 12 years together the day both of our lives changed. I rescued her from a home of and severe neglect, and she rescued me at the same time. I am so lucky to have her in my life. Happy happy. "After this, therefore because of this." You can't assume that divorce itself causes all the bad things you point to. To point out but one obvious possibility: What if the pressures of poverty tend to precipitate breakups, unwed motherhood, and incarceration? Correlation does not prove causation. If someone were able to compare of intact happy homes to of intact but miserable homes, and the latter to of divorce, and control for income and social status, we might get somewhere. But you can't quantify all those things. Not all of them fit neatly into a graph. What good is marriage to a person whose word and fidelity you can never trust? What example does that set for the? What are the odds that they grow up to create miserable unions just like their parents' marriage, because that is all they know: that one party cheats and lies and the other is a doormat?