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I agree, Rov_Scam seems to have forgotten to include any tradeoffs that would make such a situation as undesirable as the reverse seems to be for many women. Consider the following:
in this scenario the man is implicitly offered a stable long-term relationship when many (younger) men don't have one, and a significant number don't have any relationship but would want one
having many children means having lots of sex, and men appear to value sex more than women and have lower bars for attractiveness
men are physically stronger and have accordingly less to fear from domestic violence
men are more valued on the job market and would accordingly have an easier time returning to supporting themselves if the deal doesn't work out
the cost of bearing the children is still on the woman
Bullets 1 and 2 don't apply, since the implicit comparison is to marrying her without the unusual features stipulated.
I didn't think of 3 or 4. So only 5 seems to be of much weight.
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This is the kind of thing that seems to be repeated often but for which there's basically no actual evidence.
In any case, one thing that's clear to me, at least about the men I'm familiar with, is that you could negate all such advantages, real or imagined, and even tack on a few extra disadvantages (of which there already are plenty which also haven't been mentioned here, but IMHO trying to go through some laundry list of stuff and weigh them properly is a fool's game whose conclusions depend entirely on the biases of the writer and none on the actual reality of the situation), and it would still look like a far better deal than what they're getting right now.
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