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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: Privacy -- and responsibility
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- References: <1993Jan19.193048.24709@ll.mit.edu> <1jkhsiINNese@gap.caltech.edu> <C181zo.B04@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:38:52 GMT
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- karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
- >In article <1jkhsiINNese@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>x73rl@ll.mit.edu ( Rick LaFave) writes:
- >>
- >>>Michal - sometimes you have no clue whatsoever. If anything thats marriage
- >>>for HER - walk away, take the kids, take the house, take his income. Men
- >>>are by far the losers in divorce, not women. Women, by holding the kids up
- >>>as a shield, are entitled to a post-divorce standard of living that is
- >>>equivalent to before divorce.
- >>
- >>Not so. According to The Economist (Christmas issue, 1992) usually the
- >>woman's standard of living drops after divorce. Often that of the man
- >>rises.
- >
- >So what? The salient question is this:
- >
- > Did her standard of living <rise> when she got married? If so, then
- > she has <returned> to her former standard of living, and has not
- > been screwed in any way.
- >
- > Does getting married imply that a woman is <entitled> to maintain
- > the married standard of living, even if the marriage ends?
- >
- >It is easy to leave off the other half of the equation if it doesn't suit
- >your needs.
-
- Nah, everybody's missing the salient issues.
-
- You see, 80% of divorces are initiated by women because
- 80% of divorces are a result of abuse by men, and these
- women would rather lower their standard of living than
- continue letting their children be abused. Yes. Moreover,
- these men are not suddenly working more to support two households;
- rather, they have been freed to flee the love of their children
- and mooch off male privilege by getting higher salaries from
- sexist corporations. Indeed, studies have shown it is emphatically
- in the best interests of children to have a man pay a woman to send
- a child to daycare than for a man to send a child to daycare.
-
- Don [need I disclaim?]
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