Rights In Marriage

There is a widespread suspicion that marriage isn't what it used to be.

From the point of the view of the right, it is quite arguable that liberals want to remove the right of men to have children and give the entirety of that right to the woman, therefore lessening the value of marriage and family.

In all fairness, at the very least, husbands should not be left powerless if, after both parties agreed to be married, his wife intentionally aborts a child that neither of them initially opposed. The risk that a wife takes has its counterpart in the risk that a husband takes in having to support the child for eighteen years, as the large majority of child support is transmitted from an ex-husband to his former spouse. Indeed, a father is often held liable for this child support since mothers are often award physical custody of the children of divorce, which, as a practical matter, places the father in a position of having to give money while not being able to exercise as much control over the raising of the child.

From the point of the view of the left, since child support is not dependent on marriage, marriage and relations between men and women are simply more equal than they once were.

Perhaps it's me, but I don't see how a disproportionate concentration of power in one party equalizes anything.