Just read an article about a mother, who after watching one too many episodes of Real Housewives, decided that she should get her daughter (aged 4) to go to Oxford, aspire to marry a wealthy man, have his children, and expect him to pay for her. :facepalm: That is just wrong on so many levels.
In this day and age where women can earn money and have an education, there is no excuse for a woman to encourage her daughter to be like that.
I just don't know how a mother can set her hopes for her daughter at something so low and encourage her to be with a man just for his money.
Might as well tell her daughter to be a stripper, escort or pole dancer. Similar thing really: trick a guy you don't love into parting with his money and then feel all used up and worthless by 30.
Fine if the girl grows up to love a man and he just happens to have means, but to actively encourage looking for a wealthy man to use as nothing but a bank account is deplorable to me. It's just not right. I come from a family where the husbands could easily support their wives, but the women wanted to work and use their degrees.
My grandmothers tell me, it gave them an identity, financial stability, sense of self, and useful purpose beyond being known as just someone's wife or mother.
The only good to come from that article is that women where I live back home and women commenting on the article said they actively encourage their sons to avoid women like that. Honestly, I don't blame them. It's a very unequal relationship.