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... it is an age old debate - who works harder, the mom who stays home or the mom that works outside the home - and I won't get into that now, but it seems like a rather uninformed comment on your part to say that a stay-at-home mom likely gets compensated by "care and life-enjoyment" that she receives from modern conveniences. Would those conveniences include a washing machine or a dishwasher?
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Absolutely!

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Does this mean that because these appliances exist that having to do laundry or clean dishes is obsolete or that these chores are done by themselves?
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They are practically done by themselves, in comparison to the grueling labor required for these tasks, at the time when "community property" laws were first created.

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Women who choose to stay home to care for the children and the household are not compensated with money (usually) and make many sacrifices to be able to care for their families in this way.
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The key, operable term here, is CHOOSE. If they do, in fact, make this choice freely, and they are not compensated with money, then how can they later demand to be compensated with money? If this care is a voluntary gift, at the time, why then should they later be entitled to demand payment for the gift? Could it be that this supposed "gift" is really part of a sophisticated scam to deceive the primary wage earner into believing that his pay is actually all his, when in fact a large portion is readily available to his wife --and her lawyers--at any future time in which she may decide that she is ready to be payed for these "gifts"?

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...and it appears they CAN be fired - when the man decides he wants a divorce
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Maybe the woman CAN be fired, but how many men are willing to fire an employe who gets THIS kind of severance pay? The man, however, can not only be fired but has to keep on top of the game at work, staying ahead of office politics, personnel reviews, training upgrades, sales quotas, etc., etc. In most states, and with most companies, there is no such thing as severance pay. Some women have even been awarded much more than one-half of their husband's assets, in "equitable division" states, based upon nothing but the theory that they somehow contibuted to the creation of these assets by going to "office parties" with him!

Give me a break!