So much have been said about sex discrimination but so far most
has been for the support of women. It is right that they must be
given equal rights and oppurtunities, freedom from abuse and so on.
The govt has done the right thing recently by granting women civil
servants equal medical benefits as their men counterpart. I am all
for women getting equal rights. Now how about equal
responsibilities?
Aside from the sore point of women not having to serve NS, the
reason I am writing this is that I have come across a few cases of
divorces in which the men paid heavily and very often, unfairly for
their divorces. I have came across some who have to fork out half
of their take home pay, leaving themselves with less than a
thousand bucks to survive. Very often, the women will emerge none
the worse and in fact some of them came out laughing all the way to
the bank!
The law must know that the days of uneducated ignorant women are
over and that they have an equal responsibility to maintain the
children. True, most women still perform a greater percentage of
household chores over the men, but the disparity is becoming lesser
nowadays. So pray tell me why must men shoulder the bulk of the
burden of maintaining their children?
My friend recently had a divorce. He is earning a take home pay of
$2000. Child and wife maintenance comes up to $601 Oh yes, the $1
is for the wife. Goodwill on the part of the ex-wife in only asking
a token $1 for her maintenance? Hell no! Its because if she
re-marries she'll only lose $1! How many average S'pore child needs
$600 to survive? I mean if the father is only earning $2000? Don't
forget the law says that both parents must share in child
maintenance, so if say, the wife has her own salary, the child
should be getting like $1k a month!
I can go on. If you want more details, ask me. Anyway, something
here for you to ponder on:
When men dates women, they pay, dinner, movies, taxi......
When men marries they pay, wedding dinner, dowry, gifts....
When men married, they pay, renovation, bills, fees, family
outings...
When men divorce, they pay, alimony, maintenance, legal
costs....
When men don't marry, they pay prostitutes, karaoke
hostesses....
All opinions welcome, including flames! 
