Society wrote:
> "MCP"  wrote in message
> news:NBv%d.95943$ug2.53369{at}fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
>>   http://www.hoosiergazette.com/2005/March/news/news003.asp
>>
>>   More engaged men are setting up divorce nest eggs
>>   August Wayne, THG News
>>
>>  The high percentage of marriages that end
>>  in divorce has created a new trend;
>>  many men are planning financially for their
>>  divorce before they even get married.
>
>
> Remember, folks, its the men willing to even
> think of marrying that are still hoping there
> are some halfway decent women out there.
>
> Thanks for posting this article, MCP.  It's scary
> but men (and the dwindling number of women
> of good will toward men) need to know this stuff.
>
>    "Be prepared."
>    -- Boy Scout motto
>
>
>>  A recent survey conducted by the Indiana
>>  Marriage Research Institute (IMRI)
>>  found that 79% of men who are engaged
>>  to be married worry that their marriage
>>  will end in divorce and they will be ruined
>>  financially.   As a result, more than half of
>>  these men admitted to setting up secret
>>  nest eggs in case their fears become reality.
>
>
> Hmmm.  Does this mean the feminized courts
> in the USA no longer recognize a man's
> separate property as _separate_?  (Ugh.)
>
>
>>  "Some people believe this is the height
>>  of pessimism, but to me it makes
>>   perfect sense," says Dr. Phillip Haus,
>>  director of the study, "Many of these
>>  men are professionals who have worked
>>  hard for their success and don't want
>>  to start from scratch if the woman they
>>  marry turns out to be a total witch
>>  to live with."
>
>
> Now is the time for men to demand that
> wives-to-be cough up a dowry before
> marriage.
>
>
>>  Haus says the most common way
>>  engaged men plan for the worst is by
>>  setting up a savings account in the
>>  name of a relative they trust who has
>>  had a long, sound marriage so their
>>  funds will be safe.  This way once the
>>  joint assets are divided after a divorce,
>>  they will have a little something extra
>>  to fall back on.
>
>
> I believe that a prudent course in today's
> world of untrustworthy women who lack
> the ability to commit to a marriage (women
> easily commit to weddings but that's a
> different thing entirely), the man must insist
> that a big hunk of the marital income be
> set aside in a long-term account.  This
> account serves two purposes: (1) to fund
> it requires a reduction in the standard of
> living to which the woman will demand
> to be kept in after she torpedoes the
> marriage and (2) it is a growing asset
> that when split upon the dissolution of
> the marriage can fund the woman's blah
> blah blah so she can get on her own
> financial feet instead of remaining a
> parasite on her man.
>

How about she doen't get JackShit - which is
what she deserves after being a parasite on her
man for n years.

D.

>
>>  "Let's face it," added Haus, "The man
>>  is the one who almost always get
>>  screwed over when a divorce occurs.
>>  Even though he usually made more money
>>  than the woman in the marriage, he loses
>>  the house, and ends up paying child
>>  support since the woman will get custody
>>  of their offspring.  This new trend just
>>  provides him with a little insurance so
>>  he can enjoy a decent standard of living."
>
>
> A dowry that the woman forfeits when she
> torpedoes the marriage would also provide
> that "little insurance" for her man after she
> divorces him PLUS it would have the
> salutory benefit of being HER asset that is
> at risk to her should she kill the marriage.
>
> Despite all the hoo-haw from womanfirsters
> claiming "men can't commit", the reality is
> that men commit and women don't.  People
'bout time somebody noticed that.

D.
> who genuinely commit to a relationship aren't
> the ones who, as women do, kill the marriage
> 91% of the time (Shere Hite, _Women and
> Love_).  For all their babbling about commit-
> ment, women don't commit to marriages,
> they commit to weddings.  One-day stands
> are easy for women, they don't have the
> temperament to live up to long-term
> commitments.
>
>
>>  Some men go to even greater lengths
>>  to secure their futures.  "We had a few
>>  cases where engaged men told us they
>>  gave a good portion of their belongings
>>  to friends or relatives for safe keeping.
>>  One man admitted buying a house
>>  in his gay cousin's name so he would
>>  have a place to live if things didn't
>>  work out.  This shows the sad state of
>>  relationships and the impact of divorce
>>  in this country."
>
>
> It's not the "state of relationships" that's
> "sad" but the behavior of women.  91%
> of divorces are initiated by women  (Shere
> Hite, _Women and Love_).  Combine
> women's already 'easy' attitude to divorce
> with a present-day bureaugynous State
> that is eager to be a substitute husband
> that keeps her in a harem that numbers
> in the millions, well, the reasonable advice
> to men really is "Just don't get married!!"
> (Only two exclamation marks?)
>
>
>>  Haus believes the trend of setting up
>>  divorce nest eggs will continue.  "As
>>  long as there is divorce, there will be
>>  people trying to beat the system."
>
>
> "Beat the system"?!!  Gee, next Haus & Co.
> will be explaining that buying insurance is
> "trying to beat the system" 'cause a man
> should take his financial losses Like A Man.
> Sheesh!
>


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