Then why can a 16-year-old drive can get a driver's license but a 13-year-old can't?
Compelling government interest.
What compelling government interest can you show to justify raising the age at which you can get married?
I said run a household. Kids may or may not factor into that. And it may be the case that a woman hasn't developed any job skills because her husband pressured her into being a housewife. If the wife didn't get a job because of pressure from her husband, why should she suffer after the divorce because of it?
So, why does she need alimony to do that?
If she's living by herself, without kids, she can get a f*cking job! Work at McDonalds for all I care; you don't need skills to do that!
Then what do you propose to do about rich men who divorce their wives so they can marry a younger girl for arm-candy?
The one who petitions for the divorce is automatically at fault unless proven otherwise.
There's my answer to that.
Besides, when a woman divorces a rich man, they might have married each other when they were both poor, so that hardly qualifies as gold-digging.
Mrs. Leno married her husband, Jay, under those circumstances.
That doesn't mean that Mrs. Leno cannot think to herself, "hey, if I divorce him now, I'll be rich, with no strings attached!"
Remember, blood may be thicker than water, but money is a whole hell of a lot thicker than blood.
Not when it goes to children or loss of net worth on behalf of the wife because the husband insisted she be a housewife instead of a career woman.
Then, get a job working fast food. You don't need a "career" to do that.
Or, get re-married.
Then they shouldn't get married.
Marriage is a
fundamental right!
What is it going to take for that sentence to not go in one ear and out the other?
So you'd rather look at evidence that only supports your initial hypothesis rather than look at any contravening evidence? If that's the case, then you just want to do your initial ideas and don't want to really help anything.
Show me evidence that supports your claim, and I'll look at it.
But, you have to actually SHOW me the evidence!
Not at the expense of forcing a person to stay in a marriage they don't want to be in.
Under my plan, if they file for divorce without proving just cause, they are automatically at fault.
"You want a divorce? Fine, but you're not getting ANY of my stuff, and I'm not paying you a dime in alimony, and I want custody of the kids. If you accept those terms, sure, I'll divorce you, you unfaithful b*tch."