[Mrs. Don-o]

Diamond and Boogieman, you need this.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3238126/posts?page=15#15<

Humans form far more complex societies than animals do. When Homo sapiens assumed a fully upright stance, the changes in the female's reproductive anatomy (narrowing of the pelvis, etc) plus the relatively large head of the 9-month fetus combined to set up the delivery of the offspring at an extremely immature stage. (A calf can walk on its own 30 minutes after it's born: a human can take a year or more. At 30 minutes the human can't even lift its head.)

This means every parturient female needs a social structure: not only her mate but her sister, mother, brother, whoever --- and even in primitive societies often more elaborate than that.

The vulnerability of the mother/child dyad is the source of marriage and family, which are manifested in every human culture because of decisive evolutionary selection pressure: those who didn't, didn't survive. And marriage and family --- with all the restrictions on sexual coitus that that implies --- are the source of all further elaborations on human society: the source of kinship, clan, culture and civilization.

If you don't have that, you might as well be bonobos. Brothers.

[Boogieman]

Of course marriage is the best reproductive strategy for humans. I just think it is funny that what feminists make out to be the greatest misfortune that could befall a woman is actually the normal routine for most animals on the planet.

The leftists are always telling us we should “get back to nature”, but they don’t like it so much when they get an actual taste of what nature is like.

[Diamond]

When Homo sapiens assumed a fully upright stance, the changes in the female's reproductive anatomy (narrowing of the pelvis, etc) plus the relatively large head of the 9-month fetus combined to set up the delivery of the offspring at an extremely immature stage...

I don't buy into the grand evolutionary myth in the first place for factual reasons, but also in no small part because it is void of any metaphysical foundation for what one ought to do or ought not to do.

Cordially,

[Mrs. Don-o]

Allendale, you need this:

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[PapaBear3625]

Up until the last century or so, you also had the girl's family having a lot to say about who she married, through their having a degree of control over who she associated with.

Girls going out on "dates", outside family supervision, is a relatively recent innovation.