On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:04 PM, ss <cybers...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 8:14:05 am Charles Haynes wrote: >> As I mention above, even if you believe that children are best raised >> in a stable multi-adult environment, it's not clear how that implies >> marriage, or even traditional family.
> It does not, but the only known method so far is the family unit, with > monogamy for the female in most societies. ... > If one were to combine human potential and human curiosity along with rigorous > science, then one would have to have an ongoing prospective research study to > see whether any other model is as good or better. Except that the ideas in your first paragraph (monogamous families are the best we know) are being used as justification to prohibit the second (investigate alternatives) - sometimes violently. Is it possible for divorced women to raise healthy successful children? Maybe yes, maybe no, but to on the one hand discourage them both actively and passively, and on the other hand point at their subsequent failures as evidence that they cannot succeed would seem to beg the question. -- Charles
