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In reply to the discussion: MRA's (Mens Rights Activists) are extremely critical of feminism. [View all]Squinch
(59,446 posts)The way I read it, they are saying that if women had more equal access to jobs (which requires good childcare options and equal opportunity among other things) then men wouldn't necessarily be the ones who have to pay alimony, or would not necessarily have to pay alimony if the wife were as financially solvent as the husband after child support considerations were calculated.
I don't think they are saying that in a very financially unequal relationship in which the wife had been home and the husband had been breadwinner that the husband shouldn't have to pay alimony. Clearly he should in this case. (In my perfect world, women's work at home should have a financial value attached to it, which would be pretty honkin' huge, but I don't know how we get that to work.)