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A husband plagued by a suddenly too-affectionate wife learn that his friend, also married to an insufficiently considerate wife, has a solution for his problem: a realistic robot replica able to pass as the husband and every bit - arguably more - in love with his wife as the human original! I can see no way in which this cunning scheme can go horribly wrong!
I was struck by the tone of horror that crept into the protagonist's voice when he asked if his pal was divorced. If divorce had been an acceptable option, nobody would have been buying robot replicas to distract their spouses.
A husband plagued by a suddenly too-affectionate wife learn that his friend, also married to an insufficiently considerate wife, has a solution for his problem: a realistic robot replica able to pass as the husband and every bit - arguably more - in love with his wife as the human original! I can see no way in which this cunning scheme can go horribly wrong!
I was struck by the tone of horror that crept into the protagonist's voice when he asked if his pal was divorced. If divorce had been an acceptable option, nobody would have been buying robot replicas to distract their spouses.
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Date: 2013-04-22 04:01 pm (UTC)http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/econ/Durlauf/networkweb1/temp/Divorceweb.html
They found what looks like a statistically significant decline in female suicides, and probably in husbands murdering their wives, though there were possible confounding factors in the second case.
Data on wives murdering their husbands wasn't good enough to establish any effect there; the rate actually increased around the time no-fault divorce became common, but the time lag seemed to be in the wrong direction.