This document discusses how legalizing same-sex marriage may negatively impact society by changing the definition of marriage. It argues that defining marriage only as a union between a man and woman directs appropriate social behavior, while making it more inclusive could decrease marriage rates and increase out-of-wedlock births. It also claims that legalizing same-sex marriage may reduce the importance placed on monogamy and financial obligations between spouses. Overall, the document contends that redefining marriage could undermine the traditional family structure and the social and financial benefits it provides.
Same-sex Marriage Lecture 3 - In a marriage redefined country heterosexuals f...FamilyMan2
Redefining marriage brings about social change. A small part of this change is positive, but it also brings about a lot of negative social outcomes too. In this lecture, we look at how, in a marriage redefined culture, it becomes ever harder for heterosexuals to understand that marriage is primarily about giving their biological children the best possible start in life. Thus more heterosexuals won't marry in order to protect their children and more will divorce. This being so then more children will suffer and future society goes even more into decay.
The document discusses recent trends showing a decline in marriage in the US. It summarizes research demonstrating that children tend to have better outcomes when raised by continuously married parents compared to children of divorced or unmarried parents. The document urges finding ways to promote the importance of stable family structures and marriage through education, media choices, and civic discussions in order to improve children's well-being and society overall.
This document defines marriage and family, discusses the essential elements and legal aspects of marriage, and examines theories of the family. It begins by defining marriage as a contract between a man and woman that establishes family life and involves rights and duties. Marriage aspects include legal and religious views. The document also explores family types, theories of the family, factors in choosing a marriage partner, and patterns of family organization.
Minnesota Pastors For Marriage Conference - May 2012bwheaton
This document discusses the current debate over same-sex marriage. It outlines arguments typically raised in favor of same-sex marriage, such as claims about marriage being a fundamental right. However, it argues that redefining marriage could harm the institution and religious freedom. The document asserts that societies regulate marriage because children benefit from being raised by their own married mother and father. It maintains that same-sex couples cannot produce children naturally and do not need marriage to protect their relationships.
Marital disharmony is defined as a disagreement between married couples that threatens their needs, interests, or concerns. It arises when partners have opposing expectations, values, or goals. Marital disharmony is a normal part of marriage as each person brings their own characteristics, attitudes, and idiosyncrasies. Common causes of marital disharmony include finances, children, sex, time apart, household responsibilities, friends, habits, expectations, personality conflicts, and influence from family or in-laws. Marital disharmony is associated with communication gaps between partners when they are unable to express emotions or feelings. Effective communication, resourcefulness of family members, marital counseling, and funds management can help resolve marital disharmony
The document discusses women-to-women (lesbian) relationships. It defines lesbians as women who are sexually attracted to other women. Historically, lesbian relationships were illegal and socially unacceptable. Over time, the lesbian rights movement has advocated for greater legal protections and recognition of lesbian relationships and families. While same-sex marriage is now legal in some places, lesbian couples still face challenges in gaining full equal rights and social acceptance compared to heterosexual couples. The document also discusses various aspects of building and maintaining healthy lesbian relationships, such as communication, commitment, and creating a supportive community.
This document defines marriage and discusses types of marriage and important legal matters related to marriage. It defines marriage as a contract between a man and a woman to form a family and have children. There are two types of marriage discussed - monogamy between one man and one woman, and polygamy which allows multiple spouses. Important legal matters for marriage include requirements for legal capacity to marry, consent from parents, a valid license, and processes for annulment, legal separation, and divorce.
Same-sex Marriage Lecture 3 - In a marriage redefined country heterosexuals f...FamilyMan2
Redefining marriage brings about social change. A small part of this change is positive, but it also brings about a lot of negative social outcomes too. In this lecture, we look at how, in a marriage redefined culture, it becomes ever harder for heterosexuals to understand that marriage is primarily about giving their biological children the best possible start in life. Thus more heterosexuals won't marry in order to protect their children and more will divorce. This being so then more children will suffer and future society goes even more into decay.
The document discusses recent trends showing a decline in marriage in the US. It summarizes research demonstrating that children tend to have better outcomes when raised by continuously married parents compared to children of divorced or unmarried parents. The document urges finding ways to promote the importance of stable family structures and marriage through education, media choices, and civic discussions in order to improve children's well-being and society overall.
This document defines marriage and family, discusses the essential elements and legal aspects of marriage, and examines theories of the family. It begins by defining marriage as a contract between a man and woman that establishes family life and involves rights and duties. Marriage aspects include legal and religious views. The document also explores family types, theories of the family, factors in choosing a marriage partner, and patterns of family organization.
Minnesota Pastors For Marriage Conference - May 2012bwheaton
This document discusses the current debate over same-sex marriage. It outlines arguments typically raised in favor of same-sex marriage, such as claims about marriage being a fundamental right. However, it argues that redefining marriage could harm the institution and religious freedom. The document asserts that societies regulate marriage because children benefit from being raised by their own married mother and father. It maintains that same-sex couples cannot produce children naturally and do not need marriage to protect their relationships.
Marital disharmony is defined as a disagreement between married couples that threatens their needs, interests, or concerns. It arises when partners have opposing expectations, values, or goals. Marital disharmony is a normal part of marriage as each person brings their own characteristics, attitudes, and idiosyncrasies. Common causes of marital disharmony include finances, children, sex, time apart, household responsibilities, friends, habits, expectations, personality conflicts, and influence from family or in-laws. Marital disharmony is associated with communication gaps between partners when they are unable to express emotions or feelings. Effective communication, resourcefulness of family members, marital counseling, and funds management can help resolve marital disharmony
The document discusses women-to-women (lesbian) relationships. It defines lesbians as women who are sexually attracted to other women. Historically, lesbian relationships were illegal and socially unacceptable. Over time, the lesbian rights movement has advocated for greater legal protections and recognition of lesbian relationships and families. While same-sex marriage is now legal in some places, lesbian couples still face challenges in gaining full equal rights and social acceptance compared to heterosexual couples. The document also discusses various aspects of building and maintaining healthy lesbian relationships, such as communication, commitment, and creating a supportive community.
This document defines marriage and discusses types of marriage and important legal matters related to marriage. It defines marriage as a contract between a man and a woman to form a family and have children. There are two types of marriage discussed - monogamy between one man and one woman, and polygamy which allows multiple spouses. Important legal matters for marriage include requirements for legal capacity to marry, consent from parents, a valid license, and processes for annulment, legal separation, and divorce.
S2 Stephen Stacey - The value of marriage to society - 30 june 2014sillitoe
This document discusses the value of marriage to society. It argues that marriage provides the best environment for children to develop and brings the best outcomes on average. However, marriage is in decline in many societies due to a lack of support from institutions and a redefinition of marriage away from responsibility to children. To strengthen families and society, the document calls for supporting marriage through education, counseling programs, and policies that reinforce marriage as an institution focused on children's welfare.
The document discusses trends in marriage, divorce, and cohabitation in Britain. It notes that marriage rates have declined since 1961 while divorce rates have increased, almost doubling in the 1970s. Britain now has one of the highest divorce rates in Europe. Around 40% of new marriages are likely to end in divorce. The document goes on to discuss factors that may have contributed to these trends, such as changes in divorce laws, declining stigma around divorce, rising expectations of marriage, and changes to women's roles.
Lesbian relationships have faced challenges due to societal and legal biases. Historically, lesbianism was seen as strange and illegal. Lesbians kept their relationships secret to avoid discrimination. Over time, activists advocated for greater legal rights and recognition of lesbian identities. Same-sex marriage is now legal in some places, but lesbians still face barriers to equal treatment and do not have all the civil rights of heterosexual couples. Building healthy lesbian relationships requires open communication, shared power, and supportive communities.
This document discusses several topics related to families in the UK, including views from both conservatives and their critics on issues like benefits cuts, bedroom taxes, and policies regarding child intervention. It also examines declining marriage rates and the rise in cohabitation and divorce. Conservatives are criticized for policies that hurt the poor, while their supporters argue measures like tax breaks could encourage more marriage. Factors discussed as influencing family trends include rising costs, career priorities, tolerance of alternatives to marriage, and women's increased independence. Risks of cohabitation and divorce mentioned include family instability and children facing difficulties.
The document discusses changes that have occurred to families in recent decades, including increases in divorce rates, cohabitation, and births outside of marriage. This has contributed to greater family diversity with more lone-parent families, stepfamilies, and people living alone or without children. Reasons proposed for these changes include developments like the legalization and destigmatization of divorce, women's rising economic independence, and declining religious influence in society.
Causes of family breakdown and its effects on Children by David MetaloroDavid Metaloro
Abstract
The increase of family breakdown down rate in Juba City has been due to alcohol and drugs addiction, financial problems, death, plus psychological, sexual and emotional abuse, threatening diseases like HIV/AIDs and inability to resolve conflict among others.
The objective of the study was to investigate the causes of family breakdown and its effects on the children in Juba City. The effects of family breakdown on children include difficulties in school, stress, early engagement in sexual activities, insecure and afraid of the future, depression and fear of being abandoned. The forms of family breakdown identified during the study include death, separation and divorce.
The rate of the family breakage was indicating 78.3%, though the study was based in Juba city, it reflects the entire country since all of the ten states’ habitants were included in study. Some of the cultural practices were found of backing up the high rate of family breakdown and such practices include force marriage, polygamy marriage, inheritance of widowers and high bride wealth.
The study proved communication skills, creation of family laws, supporting the children of the low families, marriage preparation and parenting new initiatives and information giving and mediation are the fundamental alternative solution to family breakdown.
In conclusion, the study proved the family breakdown affects the children performance in schools in line with other effects such as; stress, depression, fear of being abandoned, insecure and afraid of the future and torn in two among others.
In the end, the study recommended that the three stakeholders; government, NGOs and the academia to play respective role suggested to them by the researcher in accordance with the findings.
Divorce has become more common in modern society due to rapid social changes and pressure on young people to marry before they are ready. This can lead to unrealistic expectations and lack of preparation. Divorce has negative effects on children, women, and men. Children of divorced parents often face social and emotional problems. Divorced women struggle financially and with childcare. Men also encounter financial difficulties and problems maintaining relationships with their children after a divorce.
Marriage in Canada: Purposes and Legal Issueslweitend
Social scientists study marriage from different perspectives to understand its common purpose. Sociologists view it through structural functionalism, seeing marriage as perpetuating social norms and roles. Anthropologists use systems theory, arguing marriage provides pair-bonding for survival. Psychologists apply social exchange theory, viewing marriage as a tradeoff where individuals seek benefits and minimize costs. While modern marriages vary, laws govern the legal institution, requiring licenses and defining eligible partners and rights.
The document discusses marriage, family, kinship, and their roles in society. It defines marriage as a contract between a man and woman that creates a conjugal family. Families are characterized by common residence, economic cooperation, and childrearing. They fulfill important functions like socializing children and providing care. Kinship systems organize social relationships through recognized family ties like ancestry and marriage. Urbanization is changing traditional family roles and structures.
KAFKAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ/KAFKAS UNIVERSITY
SOCIOLOGY
Course
LECTURE NOTES AND POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS
Prof.Dr. Halit Hami ÖZ
Kars, TURKEY
hamioz@yahoo.com
Family Impact Seminar: No-Fault Divorce MorganGeurts
Through my HDFS 6130 Family Policy Course, I chose the topic of No-Fault Divorce for my family impact seminar. I focused on the potential risk factors, protective factors, and promising policies within the literature.
Marriage is an important social institution that satisfies social, physical, psychological, and economic needs through the creation of a new social link between individuals. It is commonly defined as a contract for establishing a family and producing/maintaining children. There are different forms of marriage, including monogamy where a person remains married to only one partner at a time, and polygamy where a person can be married to multiple partners simultaneously.
1) The divorce rate in the United States is the highest in the world, nearly twice as high as Canada and four times higher than Japan. 2) Factors that contribute to the high divorce rate include an emphasis on individualism over family, declining romantic love after the honeymoon phase ends, greater financial independence for women, stress from dual-career families, and easier legal access to divorce. 3) Those at greatest risk of divorce include young couples, couples with brief courtships, couples lacking financial stability, and couples where one or both partners have substance abuse problems.
This section of Solutions for America discusses the decline of marriage, in addition to the problems with wedlock and current divorce rates in America. It offers many solutions to help solve these issues.
This document discusses whether monogamy in humans is driven more by cultural or natural influences. It examines various evolutionary, economic, social, cognitive, and biological factors that may contribute to monogamous behavior. While no single explanation can account for why some humans practice monogamy and others polygamy, the document suggests that monogamy may stem from a combination of ensuring offspring survival and changes in population density driving social and economic norms around family structure.
Ch 10 divorce, remarriage and blended families the critically achoney690131
The document discusses divorce, remarriage, and blended families from a sociological perspective. It provides historical context on divorce, noting that divorce became more common in the 20th century and is now much more prevalent than a century ago. It also discusses the effects of divorce on children and families, including increased family diversity and the formation of blended families through remarriage.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
S2 Stephen Stacey - The value of marriage to society - 30 june 2014sillitoe
This document discusses the value of marriage to society. It argues that marriage provides the best environment for children to develop and brings the best outcomes on average. However, marriage is in decline in many societies due to a lack of support from institutions and a redefinition of marriage away from responsibility to children. To strengthen families and society, the document calls for supporting marriage through education, counseling programs, and policies that reinforce marriage as an institution focused on children's welfare.
The document discusses trends in marriage, divorce, and cohabitation in Britain. It notes that marriage rates have declined since 1961 while divorce rates have increased, almost doubling in the 1970s. Britain now has one of the highest divorce rates in Europe. Around 40% of new marriages are likely to end in divorce. The document goes on to discuss factors that may have contributed to these trends, such as changes in divorce laws, declining stigma around divorce, rising expectations of marriage, and changes to women's roles.
Lesbian relationships have faced challenges due to societal and legal biases. Historically, lesbianism was seen as strange and illegal. Lesbians kept their relationships secret to avoid discrimination. Over time, activists advocated for greater legal rights and recognition of lesbian identities. Same-sex marriage is now legal in some places, but lesbians still face barriers to equal treatment and do not have all the civil rights of heterosexual couples. Building healthy lesbian relationships requires open communication, shared power, and supportive communities.
This document discusses several topics related to families in the UK, including views from both conservatives and their critics on issues like benefits cuts, bedroom taxes, and policies regarding child intervention. It also examines declining marriage rates and the rise in cohabitation and divorce. Conservatives are criticized for policies that hurt the poor, while their supporters argue measures like tax breaks could encourage more marriage. Factors discussed as influencing family trends include rising costs, career priorities, tolerance of alternatives to marriage, and women's increased independence. Risks of cohabitation and divorce mentioned include family instability and children facing difficulties.
The document discusses changes that have occurred to families in recent decades, including increases in divorce rates, cohabitation, and births outside of marriage. This has contributed to greater family diversity with more lone-parent families, stepfamilies, and people living alone or without children. Reasons proposed for these changes include developments like the legalization and destigmatization of divorce, women's rising economic independence, and declining religious influence in society.
Causes of family breakdown and its effects on Children by David MetaloroDavid Metaloro
Abstract
The increase of family breakdown down rate in Juba City has been due to alcohol and drugs addiction, financial problems, death, plus psychological, sexual and emotional abuse, threatening diseases like HIV/AIDs and inability to resolve conflict among others.
The objective of the study was to investigate the causes of family breakdown and its effects on the children in Juba City. The effects of family breakdown on children include difficulties in school, stress, early engagement in sexual activities, insecure and afraid of the future, depression and fear of being abandoned. The forms of family breakdown identified during the study include death, separation and divorce.
The rate of the family breakage was indicating 78.3%, though the study was based in Juba city, it reflects the entire country since all of the ten states’ habitants were included in study. Some of the cultural practices were found of backing up the high rate of family breakdown and such practices include force marriage, polygamy marriage, inheritance of widowers and high bride wealth.
The study proved communication skills, creation of family laws, supporting the children of the low families, marriage preparation and parenting new initiatives and information giving and mediation are the fundamental alternative solution to family breakdown.
In conclusion, the study proved the family breakdown affects the children performance in schools in line with other effects such as; stress, depression, fear of being abandoned, insecure and afraid of the future and torn in two among others.
In the end, the study recommended that the three stakeholders; government, NGOs and the academia to play respective role suggested to them by the researcher in accordance with the findings.
Divorce has become more common in modern society due to rapid social changes and pressure on young people to marry before they are ready. This can lead to unrealistic expectations and lack of preparation. Divorce has negative effects on children, women, and men. Children of divorced parents often face social and emotional problems. Divorced women struggle financially and with childcare. Men also encounter financial difficulties and problems maintaining relationships with their children after a divorce.
Marriage in Canada: Purposes and Legal Issueslweitend
Social scientists study marriage from different perspectives to understand its common purpose. Sociologists view it through structural functionalism, seeing marriage as perpetuating social norms and roles. Anthropologists use systems theory, arguing marriage provides pair-bonding for survival. Psychologists apply social exchange theory, viewing marriage as a tradeoff where individuals seek benefits and minimize costs. While modern marriages vary, laws govern the legal institution, requiring licenses and defining eligible partners and rights.
The document discusses marriage, family, kinship, and their roles in society. It defines marriage as a contract between a man and woman that creates a conjugal family. Families are characterized by common residence, economic cooperation, and childrearing. They fulfill important functions like socializing children and providing care. Kinship systems organize social relationships through recognized family ties like ancestry and marriage. Urbanization is changing traditional family roles and structures.
KAFKAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ/KAFKAS UNIVERSITY
SOCIOLOGY
Course
LECTURE NOTES AND POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS
Prof.Dr. Halit Hami ÖZ
Kars, TURKEY
hamioz@yahoo.com
Family Impact Seminar: No-Fault Divorce MorganGeurts
Through my HDFS 6130 Family Policy Course, I chose the topic of No-Fault Divorce for my family impact seminar. I focused on the potential risk factors, protective factors, and promising policies within the literature.
Marriage is an important social institution that satisfies social, physical, psychological, and economic needs through the creation of a new social link between individuals. It is commonly defined as a contract for establishing a family and producing/maintaining children. There are different forms of marriage, including monogamy where a person remains married to only one partner at a time, and polygamy where a person can be married to multiple partners simultaneously.
1) The divorce rate in the United States is the highest in the world, nearly twice as high as Canada and four times higher than Japan. 2) Factors that contribute to the high divorce rate include an emphasis on individualism over family, declining romantic love after the honeymoon phase ends, greater financial independence for women, stress from dual-career families, and easier legal access to divorce. 3) Those at greatest risk of divorce include young couples, couples with brief courtships, couples lacking financial stability, and couples where one or both partners have substance abuse problems.
This section of Solutions for America discusses the decline of marriage, in addition to the problems with wedlock and current divorce rates in America. It offers many solutions to help solve these issues.
This document discusses whether monogamy in humans is driven more by cultural or natural influences. It examines various evolutionary, economic, social, cognitive, and biological factors that may contribute to monogamous behavior. While no single explanation can account for why some humans practice monogamy and others polygamy, the document suggests that monogamy may stem from a combination of ensuring offspring survival and changes in population density driving social and economic norms around family structure.
Ch 10 divorce, remarriage and blended families the critically achoney690131
The document discusses divorce, remarriage, and blended families from a sociological perspective. It provides historical context on divorce, noting that divorce became more common in the 20th century and is now much more prevalent than a century ago. It also discusses the effects of divorce on children and families, including increased family diversity and the formation of blended families through remarriage.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
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1. Same-Sex Marriage: How Will it Affect Our
Society?
All social ills will always exist, the only question is in what quantity. Divorce rates can go up or down,
marriage rates can go up or down, out-of-wedlock childbirths can go up or down. Just because they
already exist to a certain degree does not mean they cannot get worse.Changing the definition of
marriage can have effects upon these social ills, for better or worse. Allowing for gay marriage
changes the definition so that it loses meaning, and will have a negative impact upon society. As for
how, normative definitions are agreed upon societal rules and expectations specifying appropriate
and inappropriate ways to behave. In other words, definitions affect behavior by directing people
how to act. It used to be that a family was a married couple and children, and other styles of families
were considered deviant at worst, or alternative at best. With acceptance of single parent families
and unmarried cohabitating couples with children as families, the definition has changed, and the
effect upon behavior has as well. People who don't meet the 1950s style nuclear family don't feel
compelled by the social rules and expectations to conform to that normative definition anymore. So
for example, if you are a co-habiting couple, you don't need to be married to be considered a family,
as you already are one. By making the definition more inclusive, it has lost its ability to affect
people's behavior as it really means nothing because a family can be anything."Although many
people think of themselves as individuals, the strong tendency of people to conform to group
patterns and expectations is consistently documented in laboratory experiments, social surveys, and
observations of mass behavior." Professor H. Wesley Perkins, A Brief Summary of Social Norms
Theory and the Approach to Promoting HealthBy redefining marriage we will only make this situation
worse. Marriage will lose its normative definition completely as a required part of having a family.
Marriage will no longer be the building block of a family, but simply a confirmation of a relationship,
or a commitment ceremony, and little more. It's not that divorce rates will go up, but marriage rates
will go down. There just won't be a point anymore because it won't be what people are supposed to
do anymoreThe danger comes from the change in the definition of what a marriage is in general.
Our cultural belief is that if you want to start a family, you need to get married, but by creating the
legal fiction of a "gay marriage" you are saying that having a family is not what marriage is about, but
simply two people who want to be together, being together. The danger is that people just won't get
married anymore when they start having kids, they won't see it as the required step. So they don't
have the legally enforcement monogamy or the property rights that come with marriage. This is
indeed what we see in countries with these legal fictions: people often wait until they have their
second child before getting married. Their divorce rates haven't gone up because people aren't
getting married in the first place.Marriage is a contract, and an extremely important one at that. One
of the important agreements the couple makes upon entering the marriage is that they will be
monogamous. The state has an important interest in encouraging people to be monogamous. It
ensures that the fatherhood of the children will be more certain, so that fathers will stick around and
help raise the children. Also men are not out fathering other children with other women that will
become a burden on society. This interest simply does not exist among gay couples.The property
2. rights of women in particular are what this is about, and creating the fiction of gay marriage will hurt
women the most in this area. Women are the stay at home partner far more often then men, and as
such they don't accumulate assets, experience, or promotions, so that upon a separation--without
the marriage contract--they would be left with nothing to show for their years of work. Sending
people the message that marriage is not the step you take when having children, but is just two
adults wanting to be together, will have the harmful effect that people will not get married when they
start having kids, like they do in Sweden and Denmark. Their generous nanny-state programs pay
for raising out-of-wedlock children there, we don't have that kind of money here."Look at all the
divorces, saving marriage is not a good reason to deny gay marriage."The central issue has to do
with enforced monogamy. The father knows the children are likely his, and he's not out fathering
other children of which the state will have to help take care. I'm sure you might say that people still
cheat on their spouse, so there's no point. That is not true. If a crime prevention program lowers
crime, then it is successful. If state enforced monogamy contracts (marriage) lead to more
monogamy then it is successful. It is enforced by a financial penalty upon divorce. What point is
there to enforcing monogamy among gay couples?As for the rise in single parent families and
divorce occurring without gay marriage, yes, that's true, there are other factors that contribute. This
is not a vacuum, and gay marriage would be one among many factors. Do you then wish to enact
policies that would worsen the economy in the midst of a recession? I hope not, and saying that
marriage is not in a good state is no excuse for worsening it."Outlawing gay marriage is the same as
outlawing interracial marriage--it's based on hatred and bigotry."Comparing gay marriage to
interracial marriage is misleading at best. Interracial marriage still accomplishes all the goals of the
state in providing for children and for the child-raiser and so on. It does not change the definition of a
marriage or the purpose of marriage. Interracial marriage bans were based on racism, gay marriage
bans are not based on hatred of homosexuals, but on not changing the definition of a societal
norm.Looking at the actual arguments made in the Loving v. Virginia interracial marriage case, the
arguments were mostly based on eugenics, "improving" the races and "keeping the white race pure."
In the appellate brief to the Supreme Court written by the Attorney General of Virginia Robert Y.
Button, he states that: "there is authority for the conclusion that the crossing of the primary races
leads gradually to retrogression and to eventual extinction of the resultant type unless it is fortified by
reunion with the parent stock.""The results of racial intermarriage have been exceedingly variable.
Sometimes it has produced a better race. This is the case when the crossing has been between
different but closely allied stocks...It is an unquestionable fact that the yellow, as well as the negroid
peoples possess many desirable qualities in which the whites are deficient. From this it has been
argued that it would be advantageous if all races were blended into a universal type embodying the
excellencies of each. But scientific breeders have long ago demonstrated that the most desirable
results are secured by specializing types rather than by merging them.""the intermixtures which have
been beneficial to the progress of mankind have been between nearly related peoples and that the
results of a mixture of widely divergent stock serve to warn against the miscegenation of distinct
races.""where two such races are in contact the inferior qualities are not bred out, but may be
emphasized in the progeny, a principle widely expressed in modern eugenic literature. "The only
social concern it raises about divorce is that interracial marriages will have a higher divorce rate
3. since their racist families will make life hell for them. But this was an afterthought. No one today is
arguing that gay marriage will cause harm to the purity of any race or that any specific harm will
result from individual gay marriages. It is the broader social harm of redefining marriage that is the
concern, and the negative consequences that this will bring.