Haven't downvoted, but I'll discuss it if you're still around. Seeing it as being about breadwinner at all is, to my mind, rather beside the point. If a partne

Haven't downvoted, but I'll discuss it if you're still around. Seeing it as being about breadwinner at all is, to my mind, rather beside the point. If a partner hasn't worked in years, they are dependent on the working partner's income. Alimony isn't usually unlimited and exists in principle (and often in practice) to support the dependent partner until their financial situation is resolved. The alternative would be state support, not nothing. There's no mechanism in a modern state to leave someone without financial support (although there are substantial failures in practice). Having taxpayers pay for things that can be arranged privately is generally avoided, and given that people are in broad strokes aware of alimony laws, they've tacitly agreed to such support by marrying. So I suppose I'd ask what you'd propose as an alternative system?