I do
not condone the angry rhetoric that @
YokoKuwabara: is using, but I nonetheless agree with his underlining argument. So, allow me to state the same argument in a more.. appropriate fashion:
The fact of the matter is, regardless of whether or not you think so, humans are Evolutionarily polygamous. There are many mammals in the animal kingdom that are monogamous, but humans aren't one of them. Our need to have a partner only lasts for as long as is needed to have, and raise a child; (typically about 4-5 years) and after that, interest will be sought elsewhere.
The problem you see with divorce rates is exactly for that very reason; and, if noted, it usually occurs most often within the "4-5" year period of the partners being together. Society has set up a system through which monogamous relationships are rewarded (which, I'm assuming probably steamed from very early periods in man's history where staying together longer did have survival benefits). But that doesn't mean that our original design has changed.
What, then, are we to make of this? My personal opinion, is that society it's self needs to change it's ideas on relationships in general to accompany the basic fact that humans are eternally polygamous (just as with so many other basic facts regarding human sexuality). That may sound like an
appeal to naturewiki, but it is in fact logically sound on the grounds that we have set up a system that
discourages what is natural for us- and therefore, is unhealthy.
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