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I tend to be the chivalrous type overall, but even from my perspective, the alimony and divorce set-up in the US is totally out of control, and in the broader picture, it’s doing a lot of damage to the conservative movement in the US. The productive earners and makers in US society see these ludicrous alimony awards and, for quite rational reasons, decide not to get married and to have kids since they want to protect their assets. So then who has the kids in US society these day? The takers, the ones without planning skills and those with little to lose. The dumb and very out-dated alimony laws in the US have everything to do with the broader disintegration of US society. And remember, divorce in the US is a “not-fault” system, so presumed transgressions in marriage don’t matter one bit. There are many cases in which a wife cheats on the husband while he’s posted on a military base and has a kid with another man— then asks for a divorce, and the husband has to pay alimony and child-support for a child that’s not even his! And in any case the millions Williams had to pay to his exes is way beyond anything reasonable, they did nothing at all to earn even 1/100 of all that money.

Practically every other country has recognized this— when I go overseas for my business, I get acquainted with the laws and culture there, and every other country outside the US has very strict limits on alimony and child support, and they don’t have all these parasitic 3rd parties (mainly the lawyers) running around and making so much money off it. If a spouse divorces, he or she is expected to take on the financial and social consequences of that, including making a living on their own after a certain (and reasonable) amount of support from the wealthier ex-spouse to help them up.

That’s it. None of this “striking it rich” from divorce like the US. This is one area where Europe as a whole does a much better job than the US does, in fact just about the entire world does it better than our parasitic system does.