If both partners work and get equal pay, then there is no alimony in the divorce. Usually, though, what happens is that the woman ends up in a lower-paying job, either because it has better hours for her to do childcare, or because she does part-time work so she can do childcare. This is a sacrifice in money that the family makes in order to have a parent spending more time with the children. The problem with it is that when a divorce occurs, it leaves the woman with the low-paying job, so now the sacrifice in money is purely on her side. Alimony is an attempt to correct that.

Like a sweater? :) Pretty much all knitted clothing is 3D.

Those are humpbacks, not blue whales.

Someone fell off it and died recently though. :(

When do we get the always clean, fresh smelling man’s crotch?

Yeah, for a liter. In the US they pay by the gallon, which means they were getting about 4 liters for 79 cents. It would have to be about 20 cents in Canada to equal 79 cents in the US.

People who are that into logos must have self esteem issues. Why do you need to show off so much?

I guess it’s just ‘hard’ for them to use all the other games that are out there. There’s enough focus on how girls and women look. Do we really need a computer program that has no purpose other than to have them focus on how they look? It’s very different from dress-up, which generally has an imaginative component. You dress-up, and then you act something out. You don’t just try on outfit after outfit and that’s it. You’re dressing up for a purpose. What is the purpose of this program?

What’s to hate about breastfeeding? That’s how babies are fed. Sure, you can use formula if you want to or need to, but that’s an extra cost and extra work. I do hate that there’s this whole narrative about how if you feed formula you’re not as good a mother. It only serves to make women feel bad when they can’t product milk, or can’t breastfeed because they have to work. But hating that narrative is much different than hating breastfeeding. In fact, I would go so far as to say that hating breastfeeding is a very strange reaction to it.

The thing to remember about exit polls is that they reflect a) only the people willing to answer the question and b) the answer that the respondant is willing to give out loud. Take the scenario of a southern, white couple where the husband is a hard-core Republican. They vote, they get exit polled, and the husband says “Republican, of course!”. What does the wife say? Regardless of how she actually voted, she will probably say Republican, because her husband is standing right there. Just saying. Some people are not socially “allowed” to vote left-wing, but they may do so in the privacy of the booth. Exit polls will never show it though. Of course a similar situation could happen the other way, where one member of the couple doesn’t want to let their spouse know they voted right-wing, although that seems less likely since it’s not as culturally ingrained as right-wing in the south for whites. Anyway, still, these results have to be taken with a grain of salt.