[quote=6packscaredy]Speculative for any particular person though.
Why is the worker compelled to keep working to provide for the non worker?
That’s not right: everyone needs to adapt.[/quote]
Again, the SAH spouse “pre-paid” into the marriage. Alimony awards are more akin to deferred compensation. No intelligent woman would give up her whole outside/professional life in order to have and rear children who bear the name of a man who hates her and feels no obligation toward her.