"China's top court issued a reinterpretation of the country's divorce law this month, saying that the spouse who buys a house before marriage has the right to keep it after a split-up. Before, the property was usually divided equally between the two sides"
I have a few thoughts about this. I think we are in some transitional period. There are still plenty of women who live to be home-makers. Men stepping into the role is still quite a novel idea in the west, the sort that attract attention when a man in the workforce tells his mates he is going to be the homemaker and spend the next 3 years looking after the kids. Various jokes about his wife being a ballbreaker sort. I don't know enough about same sex couples to comment, whether there is any kind of statistic about personality profile and statistic on who buys the house, or whether there are gays or lesbians who go looking for sugar daddies or mummies.
I would have thought, however, that in current Australian society, there is less of the "man must have a house before looking for a bride" these days. If anything, it seems that people meet each other then set to work on buying a house together. They probably both already have a job and both have cars. The decision for one of them to become an unsalaried home-maker comes later.
But statistically, is this the case? I wonder how many people actually grow up at school and then step straight into the role, bypassing any part time jobs to give them a bit of asset behind them. Straight from parents home to wifes/husbands home.
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