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01 Jun 2005 03:09:04 PM |
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What's Love Got to Do With It? Everything. |
What's Love Got to Do With It? Everything.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8017908/site/newsweek/
In a new book, a marriage historian says romance wrecked family
stability.
By Barbara Kantrowitz
Newsweek
June 6 issue - For the true commitment-phobe, living among the Na
people in southwestern China would be paradise. The Na are the only
known society that completely shuns marriage. Instead, says Stephanie
Coontz in her new book, "Marriage, a History," brothers help sisters
raise the children they conceive through casual sex with nonfamily
members (incest is strictly taboo). Will we all be like the Na in the
future? With divorce and illegitimacy rates still high, the institution
of marriage seems headed for obsolescence in much of the world. Coontz,
a family historian at Evergreen State College in Washington, doesn't
proclaim the extinction of marriage, but she does argue that dramatic
changes in family life over the past 30 years represent an
unprecedented social revolution-and there's no turning back. The only
hope is accepting these changes and figuring out how to work with them.
The decline of marriage "doesn't have to spell catastrophe," Coontz
says. "We can make marriages better and make nonmarriages work as
well."
Stephanie Coontz
http://news.google.com/news?q=Stephanie%20Coontz&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Stephanie+Coontz&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Stephanie+Coontz&btnG=Search+Directory&hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=Stephanie%20Coontz&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&scoring=d&tab=wg
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/59c28cd6dfe6f60f
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: What's Love Got to Do With It? Everything. |
01 Jun 2005 05:22:26 PM |
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Their culture of friendliness towards strangers and their casual
relationships were exploited by Western males. David HO stated in a
television interview with Chinese news that AIDS in China was
introduced by Western tourists coming into Yunnan from SEA.
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| User: "John Vreeland" |
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| Title: Re: What's Love Got to Do With It? Everything. |
01 Jun 2005 05:55:48 PM |
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On 1 Jun 2005 15:22:26 -0700, wrote:
Their culture of friendliness towards strangers and their casual
relationships were exploited by Western males. David HO stated in a
television interview with Chinese news that AIDS in China was
introduced by Western tourists coming into Yunnan from SEA.
People interviewed on Chinese state television are notoriously
unreliable. I'd go as far as saying that anything on the Chinese
state media is best assumed false until proven otherwise.
Of course he might have conducted real research and published it, but
the odds are against it. Unless he went to jail for his comments.
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To be inerrant is to never know the truth.
John Vreeland - replace "eye-tripoli" with the appropriate tetragrammaton
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