Friday, February 21, 2020

Using gays to destroy marriage

The NY Times has an article on how straight couples need to act more like gays and lesbians:
How to Make Your Marriage Gayer ...

Women in different-sex marriages reported the highest levels of psychological distress. Men in same-sex marriages reported the lowest. Men married to women and women married to women were in the middle, recording similar levels of distress. ...

Another parenting advantage for gays and lesbians is that they seldom end up with an unintended or unwanted child, which is a risk factor for poor parenting. In 2011, the last year for which figures are available, 45 percent of pregnancies in America were unintended, and 18 percent were actually unwanted. ...

Many gay couples work out detailed agreements about what kinds of sexual contact are permissible outside the relationship, under what circumstances and how often. ...

lesbian partnerships, despite their high average quality, have higher breakup rates than gay-male couples or different-sex couples.
Much of this can be explained by assuming that women complain more than men. Lesbian couples do not have the highest distress levels, but maybe that is only because so many of them break up that the worst ones are not sampled.

Here the biases get revealed:
All of us — heterosexual, gay or lesbian — face obstacles in figuring out how to replace traditional gender and marriage rules that frustrate our modern values while updating those that are still useful.
This assumes that "all of us" have "modern values" that are opposed to "traditional gender and marriage rules".

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