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> The “strong families” argument is decades outdated and has always been designed to oppress women. So, a legal system - namely marriage - that guarantees a wo
by lurquer 5y ago
> The “strong families” argument is decades outdated and has always been designed to oppress women.
So, a legal system - namely marriage - that guarantees a woman a large portion of the property earned by the man during the marriage is “designed to oppress women”?
How is that?
What legal rights is a woman deprived of in a marriage that she would otherwise have being single?
The entire point of marriage is to give the ‘weaker’ member of the relationship rights to the property and earnings of the ‘stronger’ member.
- Notanothertoo 5y agoThis made a lot more sense imo when rights were less equal and the expectation was for the wife to stay at home. I think as thinks become more equal the more irrelevant an doutdated the current legal expectations are around marriage. Especially because the state will enforce child support regardless of martial status. At some point the narrative has to change when things are more equal. I think there is a lot of data supporting that they have in many ways changed already. Women are more educated on average and more are completing higher education degrees than men and have been for the last few years.