How Dependable Are You?

I am reminded of a couple whose marriage was going on the rocks and sought the advice of a marriage counselor.
The counselor pleaded with them to patch up their quarrel, but they were adamant. "So," said the counselor, "you know the consequences and you want to part. Remember this. You must divide your property equally."
The wife flared up. "Y ou mean the $4.000 I have saved up? I must give him half? My money?
"Yes said the counselor. "He gets $2.000. You get $2.000."
"What about the furniture? I paid for that."
"Same thing," ansewered the counselor. "Your husband gets the bedroom and the living room, you get the dining room and the kitchen."
Then there was challenging gleam in the wife's eye. "What about our three children?"
That stumped him. Shrewdly he assayed the situation, then he came up with a Solomnic answer.
"Go back and live together until your fourth child is born. Then you take two children and your husband take two."
The wife shook her head. "No, I'm sure that wouldn't work out. If I depended on him, I wouldn't have the other three I got.