A prenuptial agreement is a signed and notarized agreement made by a couple before marriage that concerns various financial issues such as the control and possession of property and other assets taken into the marriage and later obtained during the marriage either individually or jointly, as well as the couple’s future earnings, and how such property as assets will be distributed in the event of divorce or death.
If you're trying to decide whether or not to make a prenuptial agreement, you'll need to understand what this type of contract can, and cannot do for you.
Some disadvantages if you don’t make a prenuptial agreement, your state’s laws determine who owns the property that you acquire during your marriage, as well as what happens to that property at divorce or death. State law may even have a say in what happens to some of the property you owned before you were married. Some more disadvantages are there is never the perfect time and some state laws may protect you without a prenup. Some things prenups can’t deal with are custody of the children, visitation to the children, and child support.
Not only do the rich need prenups. Some reasons why you may get a prenup is because past separate property to children from prior marriages, clarifying financial rights, avoiding arguments in case of a divorce, and getting protection from debts. 5- 15 percent of people enter into a prenuptial agreement.
1. Would you ever consider a prenuptial agreement if you were wealthy or poor (in debt)?
2. Would you ask your spouse to sign the prenuptial agreement?
3. Do you feel prenuptial agreements are very important with our society?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Sex Sells
Figured I would make an attempt to keep the blog alive...-
One of the main things that I hear in my day to day life as far as complaints from women (and some men), is how people (women especially), are being portrayed as nothing more then sex objects in a variety of media - tv,books,radio ect... An argument against this blatant labeling would be that it helps to persuade young mens minds to look at women as toys, useless for nothing but sex. And in doing so ignoring the important aspects, i.e. personality ect... While this argument holds some merit to be sure, to me it really just does not make a whole ton of sense when one looks at the big picture.
Men (and to some extent women) are, by nature, programmed to look at eachother as sex objects first and foremost. In doing so they right away can differentiate between healthy potential mates and not-so healthy potential mates. When a young fertile man sees a women for the first time, I hate to break it to you ladies but the first thing we think is not "Oh wow....I bet she has a great personality". All we have to go on is basic primal attractiveness linked to a variety of key attributes(with some outlyers for all you fetish people out there). Mainly hip-waist ratio, bust size, and other factors that promote in our minds the feeling that that women can handle the stress of childbirth and motherhood. Back to how this relates to the media. Yes I admit the media may play a role in REINFORCING these natural instincts, but mainly in my opinion the males of different species all across the globe are SUPPOSED to look at women as sex objects first and foremost, to not do so would in all likelihood lead to the sure downfall of a species. We are hardwired to do so, because when someone is fighting to live off the land against other predators/animals they don't have time to "get to know" potential mates, its a knee jerk YES or NO response to whether they're a viable option. (obviously some exceptions can apply in the present state of things i.e. not getting eaten by saber-tooth tigers and what not)
So i guess in my opinion its not wrong at all for the media to be portraying perfect bodies/sex left and right to us, as when you really ask yourself what you want to see, everyone would rank this as high up because it applies to everyone. Everyone has a sex drive, everyone has the desire to have sex, so it would be bad marketing not to abuse this commonality between all human beings.
While Im not going to say much about the whole unrealistic expectations dilemma that is placed upon people I will mention a couple thoughts on the matter. People who I (and the majority of people i know) consider attractive are for lack of a better word HEALTHY (nobody that I know of actually thinks stick-thin models are attractive). These models or athletes or actors that we fret about are so adored because they are healthy. Majority of them are in extremely good shape, eat extremely well, and do not partake in a lot of extremely detrimental habits that a lot of us "normal people" partake in. Is this such a bad thing to be forcing into peoples subconscious? That they should strive to be healthy? To me the answer is simple, of course not. We SHOULD all strive to have a 6 pack, a low amount of body fat, and get all the nutrients we need. Issues arrive when people do not have the knowledge that would lead to a natural way of getting into shape i.e. eating disorders and so on.
Yea...so anyways i guess some questions people can answer if they feel so inclined:
1.Should (in your opinion) companies be allowed to use blatantly sexual adds to garner attention and sell products?
2.What are the pros/cons to us being exposed to sex day in day out in the media?
3.What are some ways to solve this body image crisis issue that we seem to be dealing with especially in America?
4.Is the media partially to blame for lots of the sexually related criminal acts that are committed every year?
One of the main things that I hear in my day to day life as far as complaints from women (and some men), is how people (women especially), are being portrayed as nothing more then sex objects in a variety of media - tv,books,radio ect... An argument against this blatant labeling would be that it helps to persuade young mens minds to look at women as toys, useless for nothing but sex. And in doing so ignoring the important aspects, i.e. personality ect... While this argument holds some merit to be sure, to me it really just does not make a whole ton of sense when one looks at the big picture.
Men (and to some extent women) are, by nature, programmed to look at eachother as sex objects first and foremost. In doing so they right away can differentiate between healthy potential mates and not-so healthy potential mates. When a young fertile man sees a women for the first time, I hate to break it to you ladies but the first thing we think is not "Oh wow....I bet she has a great personality". All we have to go on is basic primal attractiveness linked to a variety of key attributes(with some outlyers for all you fetish people out there). Mainly hip-waist ratio, bust size, and other factors that promote in our minds the feeling that that women can handle the stress of childbirth and motherhood. Back to how this relates to the media. Yes I admit the media may play a role in REINFORCING these natural instincts, but mainly in my opinion the males of different species all across the globe are SUPPOSED to look at women as sex objects first and foremost, to not do so would in all likelihood lead to the sure downfall of a species. We are hardwired to do so, because when someone is fighting to live off the land against other predators/animals they don't have time to "get to know" potential mates, its a knee jerk YES or NO response to whether they're a viable option. (obviously some exceptions can apply in the present state of things i.e. not getting eaten by saber-tooth tigers and what not)
So i guess in my opinion its not wrong at all for the media to be portraying perfect bodies/sex left and right to us, as when you really ask yourself what you want to see, everyone would rank this as high up because it applies to everyone. Everyone has a sex drive, everyone has the desire to have sex, so it would be bad marketing not to abuse this commonality between all human beings.
While Im not going to say much about the whole unrealistic expectations dilemma that is placed upon people I will mention a couple thoughts on the matter. People who I (and the majority of people i know) consider attractive are for lack of a better word HEALTHY (nobody that I know of actually thinks stick-thin models are attractive). These models or athletes or actors that we fret about are so adored because they are healthy. Majority of them are in extremely good shape, eat extremely well, and do not partake in a lot of extremely detrimental habits that a lot of us "normal people" partake in. Is this such a bad thing to be forcing into peoples subconscious? That they should strive to be healthy? To me the answer is simple, of course not. We SHOULD all strive to have a 6 pack, a low amount of body fat, and get all the nutrients we need. Issues arrive when people do not have the knowledge that would lead to a natural way of getting into shape i.e. eating disorders and so on.
Yea...so anyways i guess some questions people can answer if they feel so inclined:
1.Should (in your opinion) companies be allowed to use blatantly sexual adds to garner attention and sell products?
2.What are the pros/cons to us being exposed to sex day in day out in the media?
3.What are some ways to solve this body image crisis issue that we seem to be dealing with especially in America?
4.Is the media partially to blame for lots of the sexually related criminal acts that are committed every year?
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