So much emotion is attached to MARRIAGE & FAMILY . So much heartbreak to divorce .

So much emotion is attached to MARRIAGE & FAMILY . So much heartbreak to divorce. A " scientific " view of modern marriage seems a well kept secret. More than 150 years ago the SOCIALIST movement produced the first compassionate but cutting criticism of MARRIAGE & FAMILY as it is under CAPITALISM. The capitalist system thrives on EGO and there is plenty of that among the rich and famous. TRUE LOVE and TRUE ROMANCE just cannot survive the capitalist Culture of Narcissism. If you browse through DIVORCE books on the shelves of a public library it will strike you that DIVORCE is mostly about MONEY and PROPERTY. Even among the working class and lower middle class people MARRIAGE & FAMILY is inseparable from economic slavery . Alfred Hitchcock seems to be the patron saint of murderous crime involving married couples. The spouse is often treated as jealously guarded PRIVATE PROPERTY with due consideration for that insurance policy. The children are also viewed as PRIVATE PROPERTY worthy of a murderous fight. MAKE-A-BUCK lawyers are no small factor in vitriolic divorce. The invisible bubble of MARRIAGE & FAMILY can hide alienation and despair . How LONELY a spouse can be even in a nice big expensive house where LOVE has disappeared. The human community CAPITALISM divides into atomized bubble families. Each alone carries out the daily miserable struggle for existence. If your family is hungry ,that is not your neighbor's business , is it ? Or if you cannot afford to send your kid to college ? Or if there is a death in the family and a decent funeral is unaffordable ? Democratic socialism - without promising UTOPIA - can correct much of the Marriage & Family misery today.