“Today a marriage is a gamble with your life; and the rate of divorces is high. And why wouldn’t that be so if a divorce offers a financial gain to one side and an opportunity to do the same thing again? “
Having a stable family to fall back on would be some good insurance, it seems to me.
As it appears, a lot of people prefer cash up front, as soon as they can grab it. Professional golddiggers do it all the time, of course, but even normal people can see some value in a lawyer's offer to get your freedom back and have a nice $100K or $200K or more on top of that. And it's worse when young children are present.