This is really bull. Men and women both pay a high price for divorce. Technically, they leave with half of what they had when married. Plus the kids, which women usually take with them, and men just complain about the cost. And I feel for them, I really do, but I also know that most men would far rather complain about the cost than they would get the kiddies ready for daycare before work every morning. No one is better off.
It's also my personal experience.
FWIW, I loathed alimony, but I don't mind the child support. Indeed, although my daughter's (she was 2 when her mother and I met, but she's still MY daughter!) child support ended when she turned 18, I am voluntarily paying her an educational stipend.
Had I been married to the eeeeeevil slime mom only a bit longer the alimony would have been for life, apparently under the legal fiction that being married to a man permanently ruins a woman's ability to care for herself...