On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 8:14:05 am Charles Haynes wrote: > As I mention above, even if you believe that children are best raised > in a stable multi-adult environment, it's not clear how that implies > marriage, or even traditional family.
It does not, but the only known method so far is the family unit, with monogamy for the female in most societies. Nobody can argue that nothing else will work, but nothing else seems to have been thrown up as a solution in thousands of years of human history. If you know something different, I would like to know too. If one were to combine human potential and human curiosity along with rigorous science, then one would have to have an ongoing prospective research study to see whether any other model is as good or better. The only problem is that the timescales to "prove" or "disprove" anything are so large that reseacrh becomes impractical. Perhaps time will tell if there is any other method. Until then - I will continue to hold the conservative viewpoint that what seems to have worked so far might possibly be the best bet until someone else does the experimentation and figures out that something else is equally good or better. shiv
