BRIFFAULT’S LAW:

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

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sugar daddy / baby - this arrangement is not very different from marriage (except, you can walk out of it anytime).

marriage gave men some assurance that the children they were raising were their own and women some assurance that their husband would not leave them all destitute.

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mozaismyhero - "Indians pay dowries to the men, Gulf Arabs have to pay it to the women.....

The answer is women cost money whatever culture you are in."

yes, and western men pay child support and alimony.