This was the reason for community property laws in the West. But now that women work outside the home and earn almost as much as men, community property has morphed into a divorce theft regime in which the wife can take 60% to 100% of everything the man holds dear including his children, his income, the house, and his retirement income and assets, all as (often lifetime) alimony and upwardly variable child support, all under the persistent threat of imprisonment even if he has done nothing to deserve such abuse.
Please note that, in China, the national divorce rate is approximately 2% but in first-tier cities, where women have the highest earning potential, it's over 47%. If women in China file for divorce at similar rates as they have in the U.S. for over 100 years, they they will be filing 65% to 70% of divorces.
Divorce is easy in China, for both women and men. The government policy is equality of the sexes--women hold up half the sky. And divorce rates are highest in cities where women have the greatest agency and highest economic independence.
So, in China divorcees cannot seize their ex husband's premarital assets (govt policy) often leaving them destitute through no fault of theirs. In Anglo Saxon countries, millions fathers are not allowed to see let alone raise their children. Both are sad situations but which is worse?
BTW, anyone contemplating marriage in America might want to watch the movie 'Divorce Corp' first.