The Black Knight
Pelican
Phoenix said:^ Just remember though, you're going to die one day anyway. When you do, all that will be left of you is your progeny. Worth keeping that in perspective.
Right. Hence why I said I'm focused on the long-game. Long-game = successfully building a great family unit. A bastard kid with a vindictive baby mama that forces me via the government to give her 25-35% of my income for two decades doesn't help that goal.
Easy_C said:Being selective who you sleep with isn't MGTOW. It's called having standards and being smart.
The only way to react I believe is to work around the fringes of the system to find women who aren't completely integrated into the main system.
That or you go to a place where the system is less fucked up and doesn't reward women who engage in vindictive behavior. Again, even if a woman is good now, you have little protection if she decides to flip down the line and has an Eat, Pray, Fuck epiphany and take you to the cleaners. This happens with some frequency with guys who bring back foreign women to the US; water takes shape of its container and all that jazz. You CAN do pre-nups/post-nups and limit your sexual activity to states with reasonable child support laws but these aren't bullet proof solutions; only layers of protection. In the end though to be honest, that's probably what I'll do: move to the right state and get a ironclad pre-nup and post-nup and just roll the dice. That way, I can mitigate most of the fallout.
Real bullet-proof solutions that should exist and would restore some of men's leverage for casual banging would be:
1. 100% effective male birth control
2. Two-party consent requirement to bring a pregnancy to term
3. Hard universal low caps across all states on child support
4. No child support for illegitimate/out of wedlock children.
In America, we have none of the aforementioned. And because of that, we incentivize women to engage in vindictive behavior at the expense of men. A lot guys will roll the dice casually banging hoes and nothing will ever happen to them but it only takes one bad break to derail things big league. It would be nice if one could casually bang same hoes for fun with minimal risk but the stakes are too high now in the event something goes sideways. It's a good thing ultimately since it reinforces actions that contribute to targeting only high quality chicks anyway.