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Did you read the article? Men in China institute the vast majority of divorces, and they usually keep the house (even if the women helped pay for it), the chil

Did you read the article? Men in China institute the vast majority of divorces, and they usually keep the house (even if the women helped pay for it), the children, the money, and the higher earning potential. This isn't women unfairly taking all of men's resources, this is women being left homeless when their husbands find another partner. In contrast, men in the US get custody as much as women when they pursue it. And while I won't argue about the exact proportion of money that is kept by the man and the woman, neither party is left homeless and jobless. So your comment seems like a false equivalence to me. Furthermore, even if the Western situation is biased against men, that doesn't make China's system any more acceptable. Two wrongs don't make a right, after all.

HNerInChina 10y ago
> Did you read the article? Men in China institute the vast majority of divorces, Yes, I read the article and nowhere does it state that men institute the vast majority of divorces. The article does provide some numbers: the base fee for disrupting a mistress is around $45000. This is not an article about poor, destitute women. > contrast, men in the US get custody as much as women when they pursue it. The key phrase here is "when they pursue it", which, as you are probably aware, is not very often because any decent lawyer will advise the man not waste tens of thousands of dollars on an almost certain failure. That's why women get custody over 90% of the time. The article refers to costly divorces without explaining how a divorce that costs less than $10 to file by filling out a few forms can be costly. I have provided numbers but you take issue not with my numbers but the fact that I have raised awareness of a mirror image scourge that has for several decades destroyed more lives in the West, where most on HN reside, than this nascent problem in China. Log/mote, eye, hypocrisy, etc.

HNerInChina 10y ago

> Did you read the article? Men in China institute the vast majority of divorces, Yes, I read the article and nowhere does it state that men institute the vast majority of divorces. The article does provide some numbers: the base fee for disrupting a mistress is around $45000. This is not an article about poor, destitute women. > contrast, men in the US get custody as much as women when they pursue it. The key phrase here is "when they pursue it", which, as you are probably aware, is not very often because any decent lawyer will advise the man not waste tens of thousands of dollars on an almost certain failure. That's why women get custody over 90% of the time. The article refers to costly divorces without explaining how a divorce that costs less than $10 to file by filling out a few forms can be costly. I have provided numbers but you take issue not with my numbers but the fact that I have raised awareness of a mirror image scourge that has for several decades destroyed more lives in the West, where most on HN reside, than this nascent problem in China. Log/mote, eye, hypocrisy, etc.