A job is not your life, and is easy to walk away from, so I cannot, off hand, think of anything comparable. Maybe you can enlighten me.
For the rest, it is just confirmation that the women are close to chattel, insofar as they do not have an effective voice in their own household and its composition. Furthermore, without a marriage, there is no commingling of assets, so at least the women gets to take out of the arrangement that property which had always belonged to her, including a separate bank account, so it is not necessary to have a court intervene in the division of assets.
If the man wants to provide for survivors, he can, through simple testamentary disposition. In the absence of a will, whatever children there are have a claim in addition to the legal wife. For a childless woman, well, at least she was under no illusion, as might be with a childless wife, who is an afterthought after taking care of the children in the disposition of assets, which will ordinarily not be large. |
