Note to self: post the following to del.icio.us when that site stops being a big flake.

[goteam]

30 years of research on marriage and the family convinces the author of "How Love Conquered Marriage" that the future of marriage is: it's optional. I especially like her conclusion that anything lawmakers can do to strengthen marriage will make life better for unmarried couples, and anything they can do to discourage people from living together

Comments

[istar]

I love this article, and I am now stalking your del.icio.us marriage tag. :)

[iainuki]

That's a really good article.

[iainuki]

I think her point was more that you can't undo one set of changes without reversing all the others too: urbanization, women's rights, good contraception, and a host of other effects created the environment that love-marriage exists in. Meanwhile, another bunch of changes resulted from love-marriage. To change the detrimental features of love-marriage would require giving up the idea altogether and reversing or limiting many of the other changes too.