No More Bin Laden

[--Pete]

Hi,

The arguments on marriage often end up being that families that aren't a single mother and single father can endanger the "healthy" development of a child and since a child is in danger we need a source of authority to step in and fix it. Those arguments are very counterable in my opinion but I'm not going to get into that here.

I'll just point out one thing here. The "unit" family (mother, father, 2.3 kids, and a dog) is a very modern invention as far as child rearing is concerned. While by convention it might have been that each man and woman could only have one sexual partner, and hence the children of that union were their children, the extended family contributed much to the security, education, discipline, and security of those children.

Much of the blather on the "family" and "marriage" issue is often semantic, and usually wrong.

So, yeah. Those arguments are very counterable. Not that those who put those arguments forward are likely to listen to the counter.

--Pete