Laeserin on Nostr: An advanced society cannot stand to have women and children abandoned and begging. It ...

An advanced society cannot stand to have women and children abandoned and begging. It also can't afford to fill the courts with divorce suits and child support fights.

If he doesn't pay, other people will pay, so he's just socializing his losses while privatizing his gains, if he doesn't adequately account for his own potential failure.
And "adequately" means "in line with his station", otherwise you risk a fued.

If you're a millionaire and you try to just dump her off on the side of the road with €1000 and say, thanks for the kids, but my new secretary is hotter 🤙, that's not gonna fly, cuz other men don't want that precedent set because it could negatively effect their own female friends and relatives.

No man is an island. No contract is created in isolation.