J.D. Vance has become a laugh line to some, but his stance on divorce is seriously dangerous

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Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, shown at a rally in Mecosta County, Mich., on Aug. 27, 2024, has shared his view that divorce should be more difficult. (Photo by Anna Liz Nichols/Michigan Advance)

Laughing at J.D. Vance has become a part-time job for progressives, who have been gleefully sharing childless cat lady memes and couch jokes. I’ll admit I’m guilty of chuckling along with them.

But Vance’s regressive agenda to limit the right to divorce has scared me. As a therapist who specializes in treating women navigating divorce, many of whom are leaving abusive marriages, I believe Vance’s stance is dangerous. His long list of what women should not be allowed to control keeps getting longer: their bodies, their reproductive rights, who they marry, whether they have children (or cats) and now, whether they can divorce.

In 2021, Vance lamented that children suffer when their parents divorce, even when those marriages were violent. In his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, Vance describes being raised by his grandparents, who had a chaotic and violent marriage. He recounts a scene in which his grandmother doused his grandfather with gasoline while he slept on the couch. She then lit him on fire and their 11-year-old daughter had to put out the flames. For Vance, even this extreme level of family violence is preferable to divorce.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/j-d-vance-become-laugh-091506390.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump and Vance pose a great danger to Americans.

And to our democracy.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Republicans in some red states have been trying to outlaw no-fault divorce because it makes it too easy for them.

They want to force women to stay with spouses even in abusive marriages. They’re totally sick.

[2naSalit]

3. So in his mangled brain...

The rest of Americans are supposed adhere to a fucked up philosophy he cooked up based on his highly dysfunctional family?

Alrighty then.


(I can't roll my eyes any further back in my head without them getting lost in the back of my mind.)

[appalachiablue]

4. It's seems that many of the positions he advocates are related to his own personal

troubles in early life as noted in his book, and in line with the views of others on the conservative extreme right. He should have got beyond those issues years ago. His regressive agenda is totally inappropriate for a person running for high office in America. It reeks.

Vance's strong views on what he believes womens' main role should be, childbearing reminds me of Hitler's Lebensborn program. And there's his wealthy benefactor Peter Theil who doesn't think women should have got the right to vote. Unreal.

We're well into the 21st century yet I think Vance and plenty of others want to drag us back 100 years, The Handmaid's Tale. It's a dangerous ideology and must be squashed. So, here's to great success for super Democrats Harris and Walz, and many more!

[LymphocyteLover]

5. All the women I know are seriously disgusted by him, and don't find him funny

I suppose laughing at him over the couch gag was a way of coping with the horror

[FakeNoose]

6. We already know he won't be Vice President, just as Chump will never be President (again)

But all these things we've learned about JD Vance just illustrate that he shouldn't even be a US Senator. I hope Ohio is listening and making plans to replace him - or recall him. He's totally unqualified to be in the legislature.

Ohio needs to fire this man.