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> alimony awards have always been very rare, going from about 25 percent of cases in the 1960s to about 10 percent today

From 2015, but I don't think there's any reason to think they've gotten higher

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-divorce-alimony/how...

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Maybe only 10% of women stop working when they have kids, so few of them need alimony?

And again that’s separate from child support. I’d bet the child support number is 80%+, with the remainder being women that earn huge amounts of money or who decide not to be in their kids’ lives and have zero custody.

They probably haven't stopped working when they have kids because it's a terrible social and financial decision.

Which is why they don't want kids. Which is why fertility is declining.

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