Platonic Spouses
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Mina — 4 years ago(May 07, 2021 06:28 AM)
So governments are changing the ancient tradition called marriage so that me and my gardener can take advantages of loopholes and get government benefits?
Your Mexican Gardner? LoL!
Anyways… it's not a loop hole. They are technically married and love each other and vow to be to death to them part. There are marriages where one of the spouses sleeps on the sofa or the basement or probably not even in the same city with the person they are married to..some married couples are swingers. That is technically cheater, but who's keeping score when all adults consent?
Some married couples can't have children which is basically the same thing as not having children.
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CrystalRaindrops — 4 years ago(May 07, 2021 06:46 AM)
95% of married couples have biological children together.
What is your source for that statistic?
This is from 2013:
Since 1970, the portion of U.S. households that include families with two married parents and children fell by half, from 40 percent to 20 percent last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
While married couples with children were the majority decades ago, now nearly 57 percent of U.S. households are childless. In 2012, about 29 percent included childless married couples and nearly 28 percent included people living alone.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-families-idUSBRE97Q0TJ20130827
This is from last year:
In 1960, married-couple families made up 75 percent of all U.S. households, and 44 percent of these families had children.
By 1980, a significant shift in the composition of family households was underway. Married-couple families made up only 61 percent of all households, and the share with children dropped to 31 percent. The share of single-parent families nearly doubled from 4 percent to 7 percent of all households, while the share of married-couple families without children remained about the same at 30 percent.
By 2017, married-couple families accounted for less than half of all households, and only about one-fifth (19 percent) of households were married couples with children. The share of married-couple families without children also declined slightly to 28 percent between 1980 and 2010, but increased to 30 percent between 2010 and 2017—almost back to the 1960 level of 31 percent.
https://www.prb.org/u-s-household-composition-shifts-as-the-population-grows-older-more-young-adults-live-with-parents/ -
Platonic_Caveman — 4 years ago(May 07, 2021 08:06 AM)
Those are snap shots in time.
Over the entire marriage, this source says 91% of married couples have children. I've seen different stats and I can do more research on it tomorrow.
It is difficult to say because the Census only is a snapshot in time and everyone who did not have kids during the last Census could all have kids by now. Last I knew it was about 9% of married couples did not have kids.
https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-American-married-couples-never-have-kids
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TheAdlerian — 4 years ago(May 07, 2021 01:54 PM)
For similar reasons I thought gay marriage was odd.
I don't see any reason to legally get married for the same reasons as the Rammstein song.
If I am your friend, then I am and that's it. Just the same, I'm not going to "cheat" on anyone who is my friend if I say so.
Getting legally married is caused by something like anxiety that makes little sense. You can't legally make someone like you and be loyal to you, so marriage will only work when it's not needed, because people are loyal. It will never work on people who aren't loyal.
It kinda makes me laugh when I think about it.