1. Women Get All The Money After Divorce
Those thieving devils. Those robbing mares. Those light fingered strumpets. Those gold digging harpies. Yes, I am (of course) referring to all those women who steal their ex-husbands hard earned cash after a bloody divorce trial. Obviously, the man is the one who is the sole breadwinner. And obviously, the woman has done nothing at home - in fact, being at home, raising the children and looking after the man isnt a job at all really, is it. The man has financially cared for her for all these years and boom, out of nowhere, she says shes leaving him for the gardener and shes taking his pension too. We hear about this all the time in the papers, and therefore, it must be absolutely true. Actually, up until very recently, women got the raw end of the deal. They were statistically far more likely to sacrifice financial benefit over keeping their children, and whats more, they were given next to nothing as non financial contributions, or indirect financial contributions (such as the aforementioned childcare) were not taken into account. And it is only in the last couple of years that there has been a move between dividing the assets of married couples completely equally, let alone giving the child carer more than half of the proceeds of a divorce. The idea that there has always been a general trend to give away the money of ex husbands to the money grabbing wife is ludicrous. As is the idea, realistically, that all of the money earned by the man really does belong to him. Where would the men have been if they had had to look after the children all those years? Certainly not in a full time career. And finally, the presumption that it is always the woman asking for a big split of the divorce money, or even be the one to have stayed home, is equally inaccurate. As Stack v Dowden demonstrated, it is definitely not always the prescribed gender roles that represent the reality.
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