Paul,The '60s decline in motlairy was not the first time such a decline happened.The flapper era of the 20s was another well documented time this has happened.Each of these times there was an excess of marriageable females over males.Women want to have children. This is a biological fact. They prefer, if possible, to have such children in a stable family structure. If such structure is not available due to a lack of men then they will have children without the benefit of such structure."Honor killings" and other such devices are how some cultures keep the M/F ratio in balance. If we do not wish to resort to such devices we are going to either have to figure another way of redressing the balance or accept that as much as we might prefer a traditiional motlairy, it may be biologically impossible to obtain. Or we may have to bring back another traditional form of marriage, polygamy.Supply and demand rules sexual motlairy as much as it rules prices in an economic market. Bernard Shaw once pointed out that in terms of reproduction a woman would rather have 1/10th of a first rate man rather than all of a second rate one. Maybe he was on to something. | Paul,The '60s decline in motlairy was not the first time such a decline happened.The flapper era of the 20s was another well documented time this has happened.Each of these times there was an excess of marriageable females over males.Women want to have children. This is a biological fact. They prefer, if possible, to have such children in a stable family structure. If such structure is not available due to a lack of men then they will have children without the benefit of such structure."Honor killings" and other such devices are how some cultures keep the M/F ratio in balance. If we do not wish to resort to such devices we are going to either have to figure another way of redressing the balance or accept that as much as we might prefer a traditiional motlairy, it may be biologically impossible to obtain. Or we may have to bring back another traditional form of marriage, polygamy.Supply and demand rules sexual motlairy as much as it rules prices in an economic market. Bernard Shaw once pointed out that in terms of reproduction a woman would rather have 1/10th of a first rate man rather than all of a second rate one. Maybe he was on to something. |