I guess it’s better than the man paying vaginamony.
Darn yes it is and only a misandrist would deny it.
If men have to pay in that situation, women should too. Of course, feminists will oppose it, because they really don’t care about fairness or equality, they only care about women profiting at the expense of men.
The one argument they cite breaks down when you consider that women who don’t have children still get alimony after divorce, so it really has nothing to do with the children. That’s what CHILD support is for.
Also, alimony often ends if the woman remarries, while obligations for child support do not. So, clearly, alimony is only about women wanting to be supported by a man, without having to do any of the things they would normally be expected to do in return for that support if they were still married. As far as I’m concerned, it’s state-endorsed robbery.
You feminists have been screaming for equality.
You got it.
Turn about is fair play.
It gets complicated if the money-maker is the wife because in my observation, women assume command and control of the house, which means men do less. But if the husband were the sort who cleans and cooks and shops, then I think it is all the more reasonable to consider not just what he gave up to enable to wife to hold a job AND have a well-ordered home but also what value he contributed to the total worth of the family community. So, it seems to me that it is just for the lower earning spouse to receive alimony if it can be shown that his or her earning less was directly related to service performed to the family. Mind you, I'm talking through my hat. I don't know anything about this stuff.
After the recession that disproportionately led to men being fired - they outnumber men in the workforce for the first time in American history.
As such, employed college educated women find themselves chasing a shrinking pool of employed college educated men.
A woman who supports her husband through graduate school and then is supposed to support him financially after that is just as sick as if they said a man who supported his wife through grad school was supposed to do the same.
I remember the chicflic movie “Under the Tuscan Sun” where she was working while he was supposedly working on a novel but really screwing the neighbor. When they divorced she was expected to support him in the style he was accustomed to.
No wonder only 12% of Americans ever marry more than once - those that divorced once LEARNED.
I think the whole concept of alimony period is antiquated concept from a time before women often worked outside of a family business. I can’t believe that anyone thinks that any form of alimony should exist, either men paying women, or women paying men.