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by uwotm6 1259 days ago
> According to them, you are a "sex offender"

I don't know why you're putting this in quotes as if it's not true, I just looked up the public records and here he is in the sex offender database:

    Crime Information

    Sexual Predator
    VICTIM WAS 15 YEARS OF AGE
    OFFENDER WAS 26 AT THE TIME OF THE OFFENSE

    Crimes:
    SEXUAL EXPLOITATION/EXPOSE ORGANS
    SEXUAL EXPLOITATION/EXPOSE ORGANS/2ND
So there you go.

> In terms of your children, you have to accept that your wife did this to them, and whatever lower quality of life they experience is your wife's fault, not yours. They wouldn't be experiencing this if your wife didn't do this.

Excuse me, what? Why on earth are you blaming the wife for something this guy did and is wholly responsible for?

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No one is disputing whether or not he is in a database, the point is there is a difference between being labelled something by the government and being something. The entire point of rehabilitation is the acknowledgment that people can change and that they do not have to be defined by their crime for the rest of their lives.
> Why on earth are you blaming the wife for something this guy did and is wholly responsible for?

Blaming the wife is a bit much, but the divorce was an optional consequence. It's a lengthy, difficult, and expensive process. If they had put the kids' development first, they would have figured out a way to keep them in a two parent household.

Now that their father is not easily accessible, guess who has to overcome the emotional baggage while learning life lessons without guidance.

We have enough data to know the differences between adults who had their father and those who didn't. The optional divorce essentially slashed their potential in half.