Entries Tagged as 'marriage'

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Marriage confers ‘little benefit’ to children’s development

via guardian.co.uk Turns out, if you control for income and and education, marriage appears to confer little benefit over cohabitation on child development. Hat tip to flutterby. Original research report here.

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Monday, April 11th, 2011

Why Feminism Is the Anti-Viagra

Our mammalian brains come wired with very ancient sexual preferences, quite prominent in the most popular forms of male and female erotica preferred by Homo sapiens. Men are aroused by being dominant and by submissive women, women are aroused by being submissive and by dominant men. In the bedroom, inequality beats equality. If you suspect [...]

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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

The Eligible Bachelor Paradox – Why Weak Bidders Win

Where have all the most appealing men gone? Married young, most of them—and sometimes to women whose most salient characteristic was not their beauty, or passion, or intellect, but their decisiveness. via hookingupsmart.com Check out the rest of the post — lot’s of interesting stuff.

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Monday, January 31st, 2011

Passion Vs. Comfort: Do You Have to Have Fireworks to Have a Successful Relationship?

It’s not impossible to have ANY passion with comfort or ANY comfort with passion. It’s that the two don’t coexist easily. The very thing that ignites passion is friction and instability. Once again, look at your past. Passion is usually brief, intense and rocky. Comfort, on the other hand, tends to be softer and more [...]

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Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Will Your Marriage Last?

First, contrary to popular belief, Huston found that many newlyweds are far from blissfully in love. Second, couples whose marriages begin in romantic bliss are particularly divorce-prone because such intensity is too hard to maintain. Believe it or not, marriages that start out with less “Hollywood romance” usually have more promising futures. Accordingly, and this [...]

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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

The Futurist: The Misandry Bubble

It is true that women, on average, earn less per year than men do.  It is also true that 22-year-olds earn less, on average, than 40-year-olds.  Why is the latter not an example of age discrimination, while the former is seized upon as an example of gender discrimination?  If women truly did earn less for [...]

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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

This is the Question

The Science of When to Get Married When Charles Darwin wrote “This is the Question,” a set of notes he drafted between 1837 and 1838, he was not pondering finches. “This is the Question” represented the evolutionary theorist’s attempt to logically evaluate whether he should marry his girlfriend, Emma Wedgwood.

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Thursday, October 16th, 2008

no phone, QOTD

I accidentally left my phone in Idaho. So I’ll be incommunicado by phone until tomorrow. Also, heh: “All marriages are same-sex marriages, after about two years.” -”Joe”, commenting on this article

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Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Marry Him! The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough

I’m not sure what I think about this article by Lori Gottlieb, but it touches on some things I’ve been thinking about recently. As a guy, the pressure on me to “settle” is much lower than it is on a woman who wants to have children. Even so, I’ve been much happier when I’ve been [...]

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