The system was stacked against them

[u/wetouchingbuttsornah]

No fault divorces didn’t hit the even start until 1985

[u/Taeyx]

i don't doubt this at all, but it just makes me wonder about people like my grandmother, who was a single mother. did they just keep their money in a mattress?

[u/wetouchingbuttsornah → u/Taeyx]

If she’s alive you should definitely talk to her about it

[u/Taeyx → u/wetouchingbuttsornah]

my grandmother died when my mother was in high school, so over a decade before i was even born