<p>Side note: it seems almost everyone posting in this thread is a mother of some kind. Almost no men. :-p But it occurs to me that if one has taken a long break to raise children, then has to start working again because of divorce, one would face some rather large obstacles to regain a previous level of income. My mother has to do both an engineer’s and architect’s work but is paid a draftman’s salary. There aren’t many single moms in construction in my state, never mind shipbuilding.</p>