And women pay to get divorced. And women pay to get divorced. In the year following a divorce, women's living standards fall by 27 percent while men's living standards rise by 10 percent. So says a widely quoted study by the Social Science Research Council. Feminist groups have leapt to the conclusion that divorce laws are unfair to women.
Marriage is unfair to men.
After all, a man who stays married is forced to sacrifice 10 percent of what he could achieve on his own. On reflection, I think both I and the feminists ought to have looked at a little economics before we leapt. Both they and I had forgotten that prices indicate value. If men stay in marriages that cost them a lot of money, that just proves they really like being married. They're getting something they value, and they're paying for it.