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on the 70% number...
Initiating a divorce is a legal action, often taken only after the marriage is de facto dead. It is not the same as initiating the end of a marriage, be it through abandonment, adultery, abuse, etc. I don't mean to imply that the husband was in the wrong in all of the divorces initiated by the wife, but that beginning divorce proceedings is a pretty drastic step and rarely comes out of nowhere, especially when children are involved and especially given the greater economic dependence wives tend to have on husbands than vice versa.
I said that most women with children would prefer to be raising those children with a husband. I did not say they would prefer to be doing that at any cost.