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> Is there any evidence of this outside Elizabeth Warren's book? Most reports say that at most 10% of women get alimony. Do you have a source for this claim?
by AnimalMuppet 2y ago
> Is there any evidence of this outside Elizabeth Warren's book? Most reports say that at most 10% of women get alimony.
Do you have a source for this claim? (anon291 provided at least one source...)
- nineplay 2y ago> alimony awards have always been very rare, going from about 25 percent of cases in the 1960s to about 10 percent today From 2015, but I don't think there's any reason to think they've gotten higher https://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-divorce-alimony/how-bread-winning-women-are-driving-alimony-reform-idUSKCN0T61O920151117/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-divorce-alimony/how...
- epicureanideal 2y agoMaybe only 10% of women stop working when they have kids, so few of them need alimony? And again that’s separate from child support. I’d bet the child support number is 80%+, with the remainder being women that earn huge amounts of money or who decide not to be in their kids’ lives and have zero custody.
- nineplay 2y agoThey probably haven't stopped working when they have kids because it's a terrible social and financial decision. Which is why they don't want kids. Which is why fertility is declining.