Quote from: monsta666 on Feb 01, 2025, 02:28 AMIt still exists today because think, how would people react to a US president who was a single? Do you think their marriage status (or lack thereof) impact their presidential campaign? People look more favorably to married men or woman and for the highest ranking jobs it can still make a difference. At the end of the day marriage and by extension kids is a marker of success in society. People want to appear successful in the eyes of others so the desire to marry is partly motivated to gaining social status.
There also can be pressure from the job to have the right "type" of wife to climb the corporate laddder. This came into play in my parent's divorce, where my mom did not fit in with the other wives of bankers and State dept and military personnel and never learned to speak Portuguese very well. She was an embarassment for my father at the parties and the country club. We left Brazil a year before him while they worked out the divorce. Meanwhile, he married a Brazilian woan right after the divorce finalized. You get the picture.
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