Extramarital affairs, retribution and lawsuits

July 18, 7:48 PMDC Marriage Advice ExaminerTonya Foust Mead, PhD, MBA, MA

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Upwards of 10-30% of married husbands (32%) and wives (24%) have had or are having extramarital affairs (Playboy:1974). The experiences of Edwards, Vitter, Sanford, Ensign, and Pickering raise the awareness to the potential for straying outside of marriage. If interested, see different types of extramarital affairs, prominent wives responses to infidelity ,  forgiveness and suggested attack plan.

Adultery/2  laws penalize women but not men
Professor of Physiology at UCLA Medical School, Jared Diamond, author of ‘The Third Chimpanzee’ and winner of the Los Angeles book prize contends that previous Hebraic, Egyptian, Roman, Aztec, Moslem, African, Chinese, and Japanese adultery laws were established for retribution for committing an offense against one’s husband. The jilted husband, in turn, was entitled to damages that often included violent revenge, divorce and even a refund of the ‘bride price.’ In fact, Diamond writes further, ‘no criminal law against male infidelity even existed until a French law of 1810.’ But even so, it only disallowed a married man the option to keep his concubine in the home he shared with his wife over her objections. So we are back to square one. Women will find a way to get even. In a passive agressive way, some resort to the use of their offspring as a chit, messanger boy/girl, courier, tattler and pawn.