• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    Way to make an unpleasant, expensive process even more so. Is this because “family values”? Because I’m sick and tired of the religious children telling us adults how to live our lives.

    EDIT: DING! DING! DING! Winner winner chicken dinner!!!

    He called the proposal “socially harmful”, saying it would “diminish the status” of marriage and could discourage couples from having children

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        10 hours ago

        Yes but let’s be quantitiative

        Year	Married (%)		Single (%)
        1940	60%		       40%
        1960	68%		       32%
        1980	61%		       39%
        2000	54%				46%
        2024	47%				43%
        
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      11 hours ago

      “Deminish the status” ie: people in abusive marriage to be baby factories, can’t leave.

      there is a long history in human culture of marriage as a tool to control. this person just proved that they are in favour of this and don’t see marriage for what it is, a legal contract of a romantic union, and nothing more.