Wealthy men are being tricked into bed by single women who deliberately get pregnant because they view a baby as a career option, a top lawyer warned yesterday.
Soaring numbers of men are being forced to part with their money once they have been ensnared in this way by pretty young females.
They are seen as easy prey by devious women who have no desire to work and equate a baby to a trophy and a meal ticket to a gourmet life for the next 18 to 21 years.
These predators – namely man-eating women intent on securing a cushy lifestyle – have been dubbed piranhas.
It is a term that has been borrowed by lawyer Diane Benussi to describe women who flaunt themselves in the hope of snapping up a high-flying gentleman, whether he is married or not.
They will then lure the unassuming man into having unprotected sex, under the pretence they cannot become pregnant or are on the pill.
Last night Mrs Benussi said increasing numbers of women were shying away from work and marriage and looking instead for easy financial sources.
She said: ‘Marriage doesn’t seem to have the same resonance it once had. Instead women want a baby. Babies are becoming a lot more fashionable – they are becoming trophies.
‘For some women having a baby is a career move. They are paid to stay at home and look after their baby.
‘It is a meal ticket for the next 18 years of their life.’
