• IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You know people can live happily together without being married right? Marriage is not a indicator of a stable household. Also many couples are in a civil union after the kid is born.

    Also guess which country UNICEF says where the children are the happiest and is the best place to raise kids? It ain’t Turkey or Belarus. It’s the Netherlands. All those Dutch bastards live very happy lives.

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      Not sure if they meant strictly marriage or civil partnership. Also you can’t claim causal relationship here (not being married implies happier kids), many other confounding factors are at play, like Econ development. Plus don’t forget that some of the happiest countries also have some of the highest suicide rates.

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        Exactly. The person above made the reverse causal claim that kids born in unmarried families will be miserable. There is no direct correlation.

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          I wonder if there is any research about the relationship between full families and kids’ development

          Btw, love your user name!