Thanks for sharing your thoughts based on the book. Nice review. On the issue of finance, I believe it's ideal a woman, like you rightly pointed out sources other ways of getting income. First, it'll make her to meet her ends without necessarily asking all the time. Even if the man wants her to sit all day and look after the kids, she should not have that as an excuse. The reason being that anything can happen in marriage. Even your legal adviser would tell you same. Sometimes, in special conditions, the woman gets nothing in case of divorce.