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In reply to the discussion: Stay-at-Home Mom Facing Divorce? Don't Expect Alimony - Forbes article [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)for the traditional male theocons' war on women's equality and rights? For their attempts to turn back the clock to a time when women's wellbeing strongly depended on successful marriage?
Could it also have an element of the more liberal recognition that women have both equal rights and responsibilities? If the latter, somehow I would expect a higher value to be assigned to the female's contribution, and its costs, to this mutually agreed marriage partnership.
I know what I would expect a search to turn up. After all, the right has been packing the courts for decades, and this has their stamp all over it. This trend strongly shifts power to the husbands, and if it continues it will severely limit the freedom of many traditional wives, causing most to fear losing their husbands, just like the good old days, and forcing too many to choose between remaining in bad marriages or living in poverty.
Ironic that it is stay-at-home wives in traditional marriages who will be hurt by far the worst. I think I'll start spreading this little tidbit around.