Sure, until you're older. Then the game field changes. Significantly.
Keep in mind that in 20-30 years, our society will not bat an eye at a homeless elderly woman living on the street. It won't be anything that stirs anyone to action to get her off the street. You wanted a man's world, you got it. No safety net, you're on your own. Good luck. |
Me too. He is honestly the best and I count my blessings everyday. Even after 20 years. |
Since women are indeed are paying 100k/year tax to have kids, it’s not like most men are able to offer women a real safety net. |
The single Moms that work for me are literally paycheck to paycheck and are under a lot of stress. I've had to pay the repo man to get an employee's car out of the impound lock from a late car payment just so the woman could have a car to get to work.
The women that are married with children are a lot less stressed. They don't have to work 2 or 3 jobs to get by and have a lot more of a safety net from the man's income. They also have double the support of family help. |
LOL it would only be true if the woman delivered the child into his arms and buggered off without saying a word. As it is, the child is half hers. At least. So, no. |
The real issue is that women magically fail to count their half. The child is half hers. The pregnancy is half hers. Raising children is half on her. Why are you using a cost basis of services provided to the third party? Does your chef eat with you? Does your housekeeper live in your house? Does your nanny have rights on the child? No. They deliver the service and leave. They don't consume half of it. They don't own half of it. And they certainly don't bother you with their opinions on how it ought to be done. |
As much as you think they do, for the child that's 100% yours. |
Look at the # of single mothers by choice vs. # of single fathers by choice and decide for yourself who needs children more. |
Men don’t share these 50% equally. For a professional woman it’s often easier to divorce and offload kids on exH than living resentful and exhausted in marriage. We are talking about these 200k+ earning DC professional moms. Not poor single moms |
And yet a shockingly low number of women volunteer to give 100% custody to the ex and live a happy unencumbered life, go figure! |
Ok, assume $300,000 plus designers eggs another $80,000, divide by two (since you’re on about it only being half his) and you’re still starting marriage with a dude who needs to bring an additional $200,000 (after taxes) into the marriage before you even hit zero. Most don’t. |
Who said marriage was a deal for him or her?
Marriage is a deal for the children. It is the most stable family format for a child to thrive in and emerge as a reasonably balanced person. So many people get caught up in thinking about "what is this doing for me" when it's not about them. If that was understood, maybe we wouldn't go into marriage, jobs, relationships, etc.. looking for total self-fulfillment because invariably compromise is a disappointment or deal breaker. |
I don’t think my math is that far off when you consider surrogates often need more than one round of IVF, and you have associated legal fees (if you’re doing it legitimately) and travel costs. |
You realize this is true now right? And that women have less of a safety net than men because they take time out of work to care for family members which diminishes their social security payments when they’re those elderly homeless women you’re discussing? |
Say more? Considering this for myself. I'd have less money but my job pays fine. |