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What about men that cheat on their wives?
I've never heard of a woman being forced to pay for child support for her husband's extramarital bastard.
There's no law in existence for it. Which is why I encourage prenups.
This is not true. A prenup does not decide or cannot affect child support payments, whether for your child or a bastard.
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This assumes that you can somehow predict how she's going to act if she randomly decides she's bored and wants to divorce you. How she treats you when she likes you, is completely different from how she'll treat you when she determines that she "wasted all those years on you". At that point, you're instantly her enemy that ruined her life.
Telling me you just "know" how she's going to behave sounds impossible. How many men do you need to talk to that tell you their ex-wife is a completely different person after she turns him into an enemy?
Or do you like to imagine that your screening skills are so fierce and your pimp hand is so strong, no woman can ever turn on you?
This is to you and Mr.A. It is highly unlikely that an unscorned woman who married you for love, falls out of love with you and comes after your money. Both of you keep saying the woman can change and turn into an enemy. As if when the guy tries his best to be a good husband, the woman just turns evil and says let me fuck him up. It doesnt happen like that in the vast majority of cases. Now, ex wives can turn into enemies, sure. But its usually not when its just you did your best to be a good husband and she fell out of love. Its usually you fucked her over and she is looking for blood now.
Are the laws beneficial to women in general? Yes. Are there some fucked up cases? Yes. But REALISTICALLY, a chick going from loving to evil doesnt happen like that if you dont screw her over in some way or treated her shitty for a while. Look at it this way, and I'll use Mr. A's example. Women can lie and call rape. And yeah, if your ex gf catches you cheating with a chick, she may be that bitter that she cries rape. But if she just decides, hey I want new dick, she's not going to break up with and call rape. She's typically not going to do much evil shit to you unprovocked. How many chicks turn venegeful when THEY are the ones who just fell out of love? Some do. Most just move on. How many chicks are coming back slashing your tires when they meet a new guy, or the relationship gets boring? When you see a dudes tires slashed, he usually did something.
Fact is less than 10% of divorce's result in ALIMONY. I will say again: a prenup has nothing to do with child support. So 50% divorce rate and 10% alimony rate = 5% chance of paying alimony when you get married. This "the woman will take half" thing is wildly exaggerated. How assets will be divided, is weighed by the court on the nature of the marriage.
The problem I have with both arguments is that it pretends that women go from loving to money grubbing just because they no longer love you. Its not like that in most cases. Like your cousin. Say he gets bank in a few years. His wife no longer feels love for him and initiates a divorce. She's currently (at 19) with him when he doesnt have that money, so she's not in it for the money. Will she turn materialistic and want his money during the divorce? Prob not....if she were materialistic she wouldnt be with him now when he doesnt have the money. What your missing, is you are looking at this chick for what she CAN turn into, ie money grubbing, when RIGHT NOW, she's not. Instead of realizing hey, my cousin has a chick who couldve gone for a rich guy but she's with him, you're not appreciative for the chick she IS, you're pessimistic about the chick she could BECOME.
Marriage is not a completely rational choice. But as humans, all of us make emotional choices and rationalize them. Logic would be, let me not waste my time banging different chicks and focus on wealth. Every bang is time you take away from the logical choice: ie accumulating resources. Every party, every club outing, is not something thats rational, but we do it cause it feels good. Why should someone not get married if that lifestyle, makes them feel good? Your cousin has something you wont have, ie complete confidence that things will be forever. And that feeling is something that you or even myself may never have from our experiences? And maybe his wife makes a bastard and puts him into the child support system. Maybe the worse case scenario plays out. But he's playing big; all or nothing. You want to play it safe. Neither is right or wrong