[Inenuedbabnor]

Hi Thailotus

Sadly the Thai attitude towards divorce is a sorry one for the women and perfectly all right for the men.

In the rural areas 'divorced' women are usually only good for one thing and thats a quick time in bed with no commitment attached. And if she has a kid too, well, shes at the bottom of the ladder.
Thats why you find so many of the rural divorced women with a kid or two working at bars for foreign guys. As in their eyes thats about all she is good for, a big slobbery drunk farang guy.

There are lots of jokes in Thai about 'Mae Mai' (divorced women) and they suggest what i just wrote.
For a son who has never married, to marry a 'mae mai' would probably be very difficult to take for the family as they want their beloved son to marry a so-called clean virgin!
But a divorced man to marry a divorced woman is much more accepted.
And for a clean virgin daughter to marry a divorced man? well, theres absolutely no problem with that, even if he has a couple of kids too!!

Sadly, Thais view divorced women as having been 'poor wives'.

In the big city however, education has improved the Thai attitude towards divorce. And divorced women are in a much brighter light.
But again since the big city people are mostly of Thai-Chinese desent, most Chinese parents would themselves too find it intolerable for their beloved son to marry a 'Mae Mai'.

If u are a divorced caucasian girl just tell your new partner but make sure his family dont find out, not unless he comes from a seriously open-minded Thai family.