Disincentives to male reliability and self-sacrifice

Have we moved from a marriage based model to a child support based model? Dalrock thinks so. He links to James Taranto, who responds to an article in City Journal by Kay Hymowitz. Taranto writes,

The culture’s unrelenting message–repeated in Hymowitz’s article–is that women are doing fine on their own. If a woman doesn’t need a man, there’s little reason for him to devote his life to her service. Further, in the age of no-fault divorce, “reliable husbands and fathers” not infrequently find themselves impoverished by child support and restricted by court order from spending time with their children.

In a world of female independence and limitless options, traditional family life is both less attractive and more elusive--for men and women alike--than it used to be.

Boys and young men are no less rational, or capable of adapting to incentives, than girls and young women are. They are, in fact, adapting very well to the incentives for female power and independence--which inevitably also serve as disincentives to male reliability and self-sacrifice.