I need a lesson about divorces
I have been following divorce cases in this country with a kin interest. From the much publicised Macca-Mucca divorce (Paul McCartney and his now ex-wife Heather Mills) to the almost unknowns. What is standard and consistent is that women go to courts fighting for their up keep and monthly allowances. One most recent one even asked to be paid a pension. First and foremost, I appreciate that I come from a typically 'backward and primitive’ African society where we may not know much about issues associated with development, but I need to understand a few things, why is that it is always women that ask to be paid when a marriage comes to an end and not the men? I understand when a woman may have spent all her time at home looking after the kids and thus no time to pursue their personal careers but in cases where both a man and woman professionally work and earn an income why should be the sister and not the bloke to be paid. I would expect everybody to go their way at the end of...