Re:The Divorce Surge Is Over, but the Myth Lives On (2014)
by ihsw2 on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:56AM
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It certainly makes sense that those societal structures would be oriented towards families -- throughout history (and in modernity), families have always been the atom of democracy. The sanctity of individuality is a relatively new phenomenon and it is weak when compared to the sanctity of families.
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Re:The Divorce Surge Is Over, but the Myth Lives On (2014)
by magduf on Friday June 15, 2018 @03:02PM
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There's no evidence that pre-civilization humans had monogamous family units. In fact, in pre-contact Hawaii, it's well documented that they didn't practice monogamy at all, except among the royal families.