Are men and women happier in marriage? Are children better off when parents are married? Do young people want their parent's marriage? Do the benefits of marriage outweigh the risks (i.e., the destructive ramifications of divorce)? Will society have social chaos if marriage were eliminated?
FTA: "Once upon a time, marriage made sense. It was how women ensured their financial security, got the fathers of their children to stick around, and gained access to a host of legal rights. But 40 years after the feminist movement established our rights in the workplace, a generation after the divorce rate peaked, and a decade after Sex and the City made singledom chic, marriage is - from a legal and practical standpoint, anyway - no longer necessary... The numbers are familiar but staggering: Americans have the highest divorce rate in the Western world... Even the legal argument for tying the knot is easily debunked. Thanks largely to the efforts of same-sex-marriage advocates, heterosexual couples have more unmarried rights to partnership now than ever. And for the rights we don’t have - well, “if you have enough money,” says Jennifer Pizer, a senior attorney at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, "you can pay lawyers to litigate just about anything." To put the icing on the cake, it often pays to stay single: federal law favors unmarried taxpayers in almost every case - only those whose incomes are wildly unequal get a real tax break - and under President Obama’s new health plan, low-earning single people get better subsidies to buy insurance."
I Don't - The case against marriage
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Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Jul 29, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=276
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