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It’s 100% relevant because Adam Smith would be vehemently opposed to paying a woman alimony in perpetuity, just to sit on her butt in order to maintain the lifestyle her ex-husband handed her. The system is set up that a man must pay a woman welfare if he divorces her. Hence, my original...

You’re bringing ideology into the mix, which weakens your stance. Namely, it seems you’re veering towards the American construct of marriage as an ideal. For example, and to paraphrase your original point, you stated “getting married to bear children were foundational to building a strong...

Good points, but I disagree that starting a family is foundational to marriage, and I’ll give you two contrasting but equally interesting examples that support it: 1. couples the marry in their 50s-60s, etc that never had children 2. Scandanavian countries: A vast majority of Swedish and...

I have been happily married to a physician for 10 years - we have a son - so I don’t have a low opinion of marriage at all. She’s a great woman and we have an awesome partnership. However, I married my socio-economic and educational equal and we were in our mid 30’s when we met. We were...

1 million % this!

No one. I’m happily married to a physician. And my mother drilled this into all of us (I have all brothers) before we all went off to college. She was an Attorney. I just know the laws and what a smart pairing looks like under this system. I’ve seen plenty of male friends get burned.

Men with means never understand simple rules. I say never get married at all, but if you must marry, never, ever marry a poor woman. You should never even date a broke woman unless she’s a play thing for a couple weeks. Always date “up” or your economic equal. Namely, if you’re making...