The church used to provide that structure, combined with private contracts (prenup, insurance, property titles, last wills, etc.) that you could use as evidence in ecclesiastical courts.
Then the state took it over and came up with a sort of "package deal" called "marriage and family law", but it's kind of a mess, so people are leaning more toward private contracts again.
"Trust me, girl, I pinky swear", is a private contract, but like 🥴
So in other words, you’re talking the institution of marriage. And how the state screwed things over when it took over this institution.
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I'm saying that
1) He should be proactively making sure she gets a fair deal, otherwise he is signaling his own poor quality as head of house.
2) Private contracts, with no means enforcement, are not a fair deal, because women have no means of enforcement, by their very Nature.
There needs to be something in writing (with witnesses), and some place she can take it to plead her case and have men enforce the clauses. Whether that be a private mediator, a public court, a council of elders or ecclesiastical court, etc.
