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I get what you're saying but it's plainly false. Just look at the statistics: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/population-profiles/marital-status-poverty-1.svg
by gizmo 3y ago
I get what you're saying but it's plainly false.
Just look at the statistics: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/population-profiles/marital-status-poverty-1.svg https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/population-profiles/marital-...
In broad strokes: married people tend to be way wealthier than never married people, and divorced women do much worse than divorced men do. (Women are much poorer across the board also, of course). If your claim was true then the poverty gap between divorced men and divorced women would be much smaller, and we see that's not the case. If alimony/child support is such a raw deal for men it should be visible in the statistics.
Note the poverty rate for men who never got married vs men who got divorced. Marriage is not the raw deal for men you think it is.
- willcipriano 3y agoCorrelation is not causation. Women try to marry men with resources. Men without resources or ambition are ignored by women.
- watwut 3y agoPer all stats, men do better financially after divorce. They feel more lonely then women however. On average, women do worst after divorce financially and are at bigger threat of poverty. And still, in USA, women do file for divorce more, because simply that financial control is not enough to keep someone in. Funny enough, it tends to be be organizations dominated by men who push against no fault divorces and toward even bigger financial dependence of their female partners.
- willcipriano 3y agoPer all stats men do financially better in virtually all situations. They also work longer hours at more difficult jobs and take less sick and vacation days.