I am talking about all of those things that women need from a man in order to have offspring that thrive. A house, running water, a stable income, upward mobility in society (an ambitious man), labor and toil and industry, the list goes on and on. A man will only go to these lengths if he is somehow assured that the child he is providing for is indeed his.
In order to get men to do this, women, and society had to come up with a device that quelled his ambivalence towards the little rug rats scurrying around about his feet. That device is called marriage, a device ubiquitous across all cultures in one form or another.
Along with the male responsibility of providing and protecting for the family there was also a female responsibility of not "straying" as it were. So, severe social punishments were put in place for anyone who cheated. In ancient Egypt the penalty was death. This went for both men and women as when a man sired a child with another man’s wife that cause problems just as bad and society frowned on that just as much.
Not sure where you get the whole socialism thing here.

I know the history of marriage and I know it's importance. It's just that you portrayed that being provided and protected for is all sugar and spice, while the provider and protector has only risks and responsibilities. Isn't it the same in socialism? You get provided by the welfare state and you have no responsibilities. So if it is so good, why fight against it?

Socialism destroys itself!

""This is good for EVERYBODY except women who seek to avoid accountability. Unfortunately accountability is something that far too many women today want to avoid at all costs. They call it oppression""

neat !!!

I will put this translation in my feminit wimyns' PC cant lexicon

accountability = oppression

right on with wimyn it is all about "choice" other folk get their invvoices

If you are talking about how the state has taken place of the husband and made the role of a man in the life of his children unnecessary in the eyes of many people I could not agree with you more.
However, where I live, you as the "father", whose role has been much maligned, are still responsible if paternity has been established through marriage and not necessarily biological fact. There are men in jail right now who couldn't pay child support for children that were not theirs.

No, I mean, if being provided for is so awesome, why do any men oppose socialism? That will render everyone without responsibilities and risks and you said that women had it great. Why shouldn't everyone have it great? Obviously, this has an inherent loss of liberties, just like in your case.