First, do you really think the necessities of being a stay at home mom differ that much between first world (if Spain can still be called that) countries? Second, I think it's been a long time since you had kids - most toddlers these days are plopped in front of a TV / iPad while mommy goes on Facebook.

The fact that men don't even get the option of "sit on my ass and force my spouse to pay for everything".

She's acting like a child by expecting him to pay for her while she refuses to get a job. If the genders were reversed, you'd be telling "her" to divorced "his" lazy ass for refusing to get a job.

Last time I looked, women had sole control over if a baby is born (abortion, adoption, or keep it). How is a woman's choice a man's responsibility? Can you imagine the literal riots we'd see if men got sole legal rights to make a decision and leave a woman stuck holding the bill for it?

Ah yes, and I'm sure you think a law forcing everyone onto insanely-high deductible plans (thus ensuring that you'll almost always pay everything out of pocket) is "affordable".

I hate to break it to you, but that's not - nor has it ever been - how Social Security works. It's not a "fund" you pay into and collect from, it's literally straight up wealth redistribution from those who work to those who don't work.

Ahahaha. First off, those programs are pyramid schemes and unsustainable. Secondly, if those of us who choose not to have kids weren't forced to subsidize you (schools, tax credits / deductions, etc), we could invest it and earn far more than we'd ever potentially see from mismanaged entitlement programs.

Sometimes. More times than not it's the woman saying "We're having a kid or I'm divorcing you and taking everything" or, more commonly, she just stops taking her birth control without telling him and then "Wow, I can't believe this happened!".

Not in the US. Almost all states in the US have eliminated "common law" marriage (though existing ones aren't nullified).

Don't cave! I got a vasectomy in my 20's and when people get offended after finding out, I tell them "You only get one life - I intend to enjoy mine".

He's an idiot for not wanting to flush his life down the toilet? Having kids means MASSIVE unnecessary expenses (current average for middle class families in the US is ~ $250,000 PER KID - and that's NOT including college!) , no more free time, less sleep, a worse relationship (this is well documented by researchers and we even touched on it in Economics classes in college / grad school - for "normal" people who do the "born, go to school, get a job, get married, pop out some brats, slave away until retirement, die" routine have a U shaped curve for their level of happiness - it drops once the first kid is born and doesn't get back to pre-children levels until after the last kid is out of the house and you're retired), etc. Once you factor in the massive overpopulation of the planet as well, there is no rational reason to have kids.

The number of extremely overweight housewives in the US would disagree with your statement.

I swear to FSM, if vampires turn out to be real, I'm absolutely finding someone to turn me. I know there's a 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% chance they're not...but I can hope!

So, you're saying that they've invented True Blood? Then we should expect to see vampires "coming out of the coffin" in a few years.... I can't wait!

True, but most of them also don't want to do the things necessary to NOT be poor (put off enjoying pleasures today for a better quality of life years down the line, work hard in school as a kid so that you can get scholarships and have a good career 10 years later, etc). Everyone's life is a result of the choices that they make. So while they might not want to be poor, their choices have certainly led them there. I say this as someone who grew up poor and had to work full time while taking out a shit ton of loans to get through college and grad school. I spent years working in shitty hourly jobs such as fast food and retail and I can assure you, the lifers there have no desire to put out the effort to achieve anything better - sure, they want the money / nice things of having a better job, but they don't want to put out the effort to obtain that better job.