Sorry about that society i pressed wrong button and i think i sent message
directly to you.
That's me in to much of a hurry again having to go to work.

MCP

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> "MCP"  wrote in message
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> >    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.
>
> >   "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
> 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!
>
> --
>    Women let men work for them, think for them and take on
>    their responsibilities - in fact, they exploit them.
>    Yet, since men are strong, intelligent and imaginative,
>    while women are weak, unimaginative and stupid,
>    why isn't it men who exploit women?
>
>    Could it be that strength, intelligence and imagination
>    are not prerequisites for power but merely qualifications
>    for slavery?
>
>    Esther Vilar, "The Slave's Happiness"
>    in _The Manipulated Man_ (original title,
>    _Der dressierte Mann_, English translation
>    by Eva Borneman and Ursula Bender)
>    Farrar, Straus and Giroux, publishers (1972)
>    page 5.
>
>




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