[QUOTE=hardbarg]Well said RD. Glad someone has finally made this observation. We are in the early stages of a profound sociological upheaval. I doubt there has ever been anything like it before. The changes overwhelmingly advantage women, and they are not reacting very well, especially in the US.
The new reality for women is in exact opposition to their most basic biological instincts. They are blundering around and lashing out. Us guys are pretty much just along for the ride. Decades is a conservative estimate of how long before a new equilibrium develops.[/QUOTE]You are largely correct. When women become educated and hold higher paying jobs, they are 4 times as likely to divorce their husbands as a woman who has only attended high school. This is simply because they dont need the husband around and because American women have been trained to be ever more demanding than is reasonable. Plus they think a man is going to make them happy, be their white knight/prince, and solve all their problems. After they have kids, these women realize that they're no happier than they were before, and they blame the husband for this.
At the lower and middle socioeconomic levels, it is the institution of child support and welfare that enables women to choose the cads. (Note: I am not saying men should not support their children). If women knew they would never get welfare for those illegit kids, they would think twice before they had sex with the excon/thug/badboy/biker. She wouldnt get a dime for the support of those children. She would be forced to find a decent man to take care of her.
The same goes for child support. If women knew that if they decided to leave the marriage that they couldnt take the man's money with them, then many women simply wouldnt leave their husbands.(70-80% of divorces are initiated by women for any given year) Giving women child support (which is really adult support because it is a percentage of the man's income, not one-half the actual expenses of the child) gives women the incentive to leave men - she can cash out - especially knowing she IS going to get custody.
Women's financial independence, child support, and welfare undermine the role of the father. For more information: [url]http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Library/Amneus/garbage/index.html[/url]