http://eiiiforum.com/picsfromusers/howifoundfreedom.pdf#page=161 If the link doesn't work properly, scroll down to page 161 in the PDF (page 155 in the book).
The characteristics of modern misandrist marriages is so dissimilar from a contract, it borderlines on a logical fallacy to categorize it as a 'contract'. The reality of the misandrist marriage reads more like a Deed of Ownership, as in involuntary servitude and slavery.
yeah, this does not involve the girl to be given away :lol: the boy and the girl's father want to contract. its simple you sign here, and can have the father's girl. so if you are not the boy or the father. then buzz out of the paper contract. what is has to do with the lawyer, government or even the girl there are two parties that really need to go through this in the old common law marriage contract.
I think the fact that the whole thing is so uncertain and can end up so arbitrarily ruled on by a bunch of bureaucrats in family court is one of the major factors leading to declining marriage rates and ultimately declining birth rates across the Western World. There are other factors of course, but I think those other factors are also government initiated for the most part (financial market manipulation, etc) Another example of perverse government incentives artificially distorting a market sector and resulting in outcomes not initially intended. As already mentioned, government needs to get out of the marriage market and let private agreements reign. Let the people involved be responsible for working it out. Ultimately it will make people think more about the realities of marriage rather than believing the sugar-coated myth.
I don't know about the US but in Australia I believe most divorces are resolved via mediation rather than the courts.
Most are but a hell of a lot of them end up in court and some drag on for years and cost a fortune. I know some people describe the family court as worse than getting cancer.
It would be interesting to see some stats on that. Like, it seems, some of the others here, I've been close to a few horror stories here in Australia. And they seem totally unnecessary to me. And I've known some guys who remain in bad marriages because they don't want to deal with all the potential fallout.
In society marriage can mean different things to different people. Selfishness getting scale one - contract vs Selflessness giving scale ten - covenant. Contract, I expect this for my service to you, I love to get, and I only give if I get. getting scale one vs Covenant, I sacrifice in order to help you succeed to become the best you can be, for that we may share something that we could not possibly achieve as individuals. The cost I bear is the life I give, in order that we may have love to share. giving scale ten I give you my troth. Reducing marriage to a contract undermines marriage as a covenant. The two are as vastly different as prison is to liberty. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQWYc3_vE0I[/youtube]
Agree with that totally, from what I have seen there are a lot of people who view marriage as a meal ticket and then divorce as their chance to set themselves up for life at someone else's expense.
Contract needs to be vague. If they were honest about the way it worked the gender equality would be too obvious. By leaving the contract vague then forcing people to duke it out in family court they avoid stating that when children are born the woman gets an out clause. With the added benefit that any domestic violence claims be female partner will be treated as factual without any evidence required, that any evidence of such false claims would be treated as irrelevant. That any children would be remaining by default with the female and in the best interests of the children the woman shall retain any property and possessions she deems important to her role of parent. Men at this stage have two options, build a new life or suicide.
