Dr. Helen raises some good points. It's getting to where it looks silly to wave the equality flag with one hand while holding the other one out for the payoff. I think it needs to be highly situational, and very short-term at best. Else, why keep the bull when you can divorce it
I don't see a marriage as that different from a business partnership. A career can be an asset developed by the partnership and each can be entitled to a share of the future income stream. Then again, one of the partners can just be a leech that needs a cigarette pressed to it's ass.
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ReplyDeleteSame goes for how women are treated by the courts in criminal cases.
Alimony should only be about compensation for total lifetime income lost by staying home to raise sprogs.
ReplyDeleteThere is no other need for it ... certainly not as an automatic benefit for being female.
Tam, you are so liberated and progressive, yet conservative all at the same time.
ReplyDeleteWomen like you should be allowed to vote. ;)
Unless you are part of a traditional couple interested in raising children in a stable, 2 parent household, there is no point at all in getting married...... free milk and cows and all that...... and if raising kids in that traditional 2 parent household is the whole point of the excerise, Divorce is not an option.
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