I totally agree on longevity not meaning happiness or healthiness. My parents' 40th is in a few days. The first time I asked, "if you can't stand each other so much, why don't you just get a divorce and be done with it instead of being miserable and fighting all the time?" They were only at about year 14.... dad's…

bruh this is a piece by a religious feminist

that exactly what happened to my brother and I. I was 20 and he was 26.

I know a lot of couples like that and, sadly, I see that in the future for more than one couple I know.

My best friend's parents had a bad marriage, just did not get along, a lot of tension. They stayed together until their children were both in college. They decided it would be easier for them then because the kids were adults. But the problem was, they treated their kids like adults, not their kids. Suddenly it…

Eh. My parents were married 30 years before divorcing when I was 20. I'm all sorts of fucked up by them anyways.

I think it's time to change " 41 percent of births these days are to unmarried mothers..." to "unmarried mothers and fathers". These women aren't asexually reproducing. And how are we carving out single mothers by choice which is a rapidly growing demographic?

Government sponsored or subsided infant childcare is a big one as well.

The "traditional" family- not actually traditional. The nuclear family ideal only appeared in Western Countries (and in the middle class) for a very short period of time. The extended family, the "broken" family, dirt poor families where everyone over the age of 6 worked- these are far more "traditional" than the…

"But it's less clear what type of policy measures we might take to address these issues."

I don't see divorce or single parenthood as a bad thing, probably because my parents rocked it. They've always had a friendly relationship and an excellent co-parenting relationship. We still celebrate major events together as a family, and my parents are fine together. My mom even calls my dad randomly if she's…

Hi Mark,

If two people who seemed to have literally been made for each other (by Vincent Price as The Inventor) and had perfectly subverted the issues of cohabitation can't make it, who among us can? I'll take this as proof that humans weren't meant to mate for life.

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See, I'm Half-Korean, not Japanese, so if I were to do something like this, it'd probably look something like:

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