Posted on 05/15/2014 3:52:21 AM PDT by AustralianConservative
Why should we stand up for normative monogamy? Well, not all forms of marriage lead to equal outcomes.
For example, “normative monogamy reduces crime rates, including rape, murder, assault, robbery and fraud, as well as decreasing personal abuses” and is therefore better for adults and children, according to academics Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson in The Puzzle of Monogamous Marriage
Of course, my fellow Australians instinctively know that monogamy is good for children. Or at least a good majority know.
Another important study, The World Family Map, found that 70 per cent of Australians believe a child needs to grow up in a home with both a mum and dad to be happy.
Indeed, no self-styled progressive thinker has satisfactorily explained to me why promoting a gender-balanced workplace for adults is laudable but promoting a gender-balanced marriage for children is “bigoted”.
In point of fact, “progressives” seem happier with “marriage equality” (or more precisely marital chaos) because adults-first libertarianism is more fashionable than child welfare in politically-correct circles.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativewoman.co.uk ...
We’ve raised a generation or two here in the USA who uncritically think that, as soon as one affirms and espouses a virtue, he thereby also affirms and espouses hatred for all who do not have it.
Meanwhile the State Dept. gives a thumbs-up to Kenya’s new polygamy law.
And in most other circles, too. They may not profess it in those words, but everyone who has sex outside marriage has chosen "adults-first libertarianism" over child welfare.
Sad.
Really? How awful.
Once upon a time, America had real class. It’s harder to see now.
Ah... read The Screwtape Letters...
according to Lewis, this is one of the primary demonic division techniques.
Basically, if anyone makes a choice different than the one we have chosen or see ourselves choosing, we automatically jump to the conclusion that “they think they’re better than me because they chose that and I chose/would have chosen differently.”
When in fact, the person making the choice really thought nothing of you when making the choice.
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