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Originally posted by robustpuppy
There are some people out there who feel that if you don't plan to have kids that there's not much point in getting married, what with familiarity breeding contempt, monogamy being unnatural and oppressive, more than half of marriages ending in divorce, and according to some surveys a majority of marriages (as high as 80% which seems a little crazy) being marked by at least one instance of infidelity by at least one partner.
I'm not saying that I feel that way.
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People get married for a zillion different reasons - why they do it is not for anyone to judge. I certainly hope Atticus is not one of those "some people" you are referring to because I don't think he is that stupid. However, sometimes when he goes on with that cloying "married life = kids" dreck I wonder.
Edited to note that at this moment due to a court decision of yesterday, there are thousands of gay couples applying for marriage licenses in Canada. I do not think that having kids, the unnatural state of monogamy, divorce or contempt are on their minds.
