GENDER AND MARRIAGE: Mary Catelli replies to Eve

[Mary Catelli is a computer programmer who lives in Connecticut.]

I will point out that men suffer one risk that you can't even imagine women having: short a DNA test, a man is never entirely certain that a child is his. And marriage helps bind the man and woman together to produce more trust. This is hypothesized to be one of the reasons why married couples have so much less domestic violence.

One biologist was testing bluebird couple's offspring and found that 5% of the chicks were not related to the "father" bird -- and 15% were not related to the "mother." Surprising results, but it helped explain why female bluebirds had more fights, and more violent fight (even to lethal), than the males.
posted by Eve at 12:50 AM VOTE

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