Monthly Archives: January 2025

What if we just didn’t “get married,” but lived together, were basically monogamous, and raised children together? We are effectively married, in “common law marriage.” “Common law marriage” is not just the State pulling the rug on you with fine print. It is the “Natural Law” that exists even without the State. Humans just “getContinue reading “No-Nup Agreements”

This was not always the case. When women began attending colleges in the late 19th century, the primary purpose of this was, I would say, to find husbands among the men who also attended college (under 5% of men in those days), and also, to have the kind of educated background that a man ofContinue reading “Don’t Send Your Daughters to College”

The people born in the 1990s are now between 25 and 35 years old. Let’s see how they’re doing: Not so well. It would be interesting to limit this to Non-Hispanic Whites. The destruction of the Black Family skewed the statistics for the 1970s and 1980s generation. Non-Hispanic Whites mostly managed to get married, withContinue reading “The 1990s Cohort (updated)”

Men have two basic ways of dealing with women: The first is to take an estimate of the average of women, putting them all in a group, and then devising a strategy to deal with this average. This is already quite difficult. You have to get a reasonable understanding of “women’s behavior.” This term isContinue reading “The Difficulties of a Selective Strategy”

What’s wrong with “transactional relationships?” Most of our dealings in the world are “transactional.” We might spend 15 years at an employer, without much in the way of “romance.” We just benefit from cooperation. These can be happy times. Indeed, “romance” can be a problem with employers. They would rather praise you than pay you.Continue reading “What’s Wrong With “Transactional?””

There is now a movement to end no-fault divorce across the US. This naturally raises the question: What should the divorce laws be? Should there be any divorce laws at all? Historically, there always was a provision for “no-fault divorce,” under whatever terms both parties could agree upon. Probably, this should be kept. I doContinue reading “What Should the Divorce Laws Be?”