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Divorce makes men - and particularly fathers - significantly richer. When a father separates from the mother of his children, according to new research, his available income increases by around one third. Women, in contrast, suffer severe financial penalties. Regardless of whether she has children, the average woman's income falls by more than a fifth and remains low for many years....
"The general belief that men get fleeced by their divorces while women get richer and live off the proceeds has long been due for exposure as a pernicious myth," said Ruth Smallacombe, a family consultant at Flip. "In reality, women often suffer economic hardship when they divorce. In addition, the resentment caused by unfair financial settlements has many knock-on effects, damaging ongoing relationships with former spouses and a woman's ability to move on with her life."
Jenkins's research found that the incomes of "separating husbands" rise "immediately and continuously" in the years following a marital split. "The differences between the sexes are stark," he said. "But this is not so much a gender thing as a parent thing. The key differences are not between men and women, but between fathers and mothers."
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Men become richer after divorce | Life and style | The Observer
This is a UK study, but the same results obtain in the United States. Single motherhood puts millions of women into poverty: child support puts almost no men into poverty.
It is relatively easy for the person not carrying the fetus, and not going through hormonal changes, and who bears no risk of the medical procedure or its complications, to decide surgery is in everyone's best interests.
It would be nice if everything in life could be tidy. Sex and relationships are not. The woman who bears the child against the father's will isn't granted some sort of free bonus. The man doesn't endure some insurrmountable penalty. Among the injustices in life, the burden on men from not having a surgical opt-out for unwanted children is minute.