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husband and wife

reviewed by FranksWildYears

FranksWildYear s
10/27/2009

husband and wife 3

It's neither natural nor is it a gift from heaven. It's an entirely human-made social relationship that clearly is not for everyone. It has been created, thrived and survived because it has been adaptable in it's form to recognize things like joint property rights, the recognition of women as persons before the law, polygamy, same sex relationships (is that husband and wife really? You decide for yourself) and that there are circumstances where an orderly dissolution of the relationship is best for all parties involved.

Oh and there's something about love and getting along with one another that has some part in the whole equation too.

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jedi58 commented 31 days ago.
the idea of having a partner for "life" is natural though and is demonstrated throughout the natural world in number of different species of animal - not all of them are mammalian species either

FranksWildYears commented 31 days ago.
By a long shot its the exception not the rule.

jedi58 commented 31 days ago.
didn't say it was ;)

something being natural means it occurs naturally in the natural world (i.e. no outside influence, etc.), so what I said is technically correct

however I do agree with you that the tagging of husband and wife isn't natural and just a manmade concept which doesn't always fit with todays possible choices in life

FranksWildYears commented 31 days ago.
Further to the natural state of the status of husband and wife, although there may be examples of mating for life in the animal kingdom, wolves seem to be the ones commonly referenced, it is a pretty far off approximation of the full husband/wife status that we humans define.

Then again, I've know married couples whose relationship is a pretty far off approximation of the full husband/wife status too.

FranksWildYears commented 31 days ago.
One web site said that termites mate for life too. Who the hell studied that?

jedi58 commented 31 days ago.
there's one intriguing example with a bird species where they will separate for months at a time but come mating season they always return to the same mate... I guess that's an example of a long distance relationship working!

jedi58 commented 31 days ago.
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lol @ the termites... strangely a large number of insect species do, and from a certain point of view even the communal based ones (particularly in the Hymenoptera order) you could say they're for life too... though it's a whole community that is together for life

FranksWildYears commented 31 days ago.
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It's like a kibbutz.

jedi58 commented 31 days ago.
Sorry, not sure what one of those is :(

FranksWildYears commented 31 days ago.
National Geographic says that although a lot of birds mate for life they are far from monogomous and that over time up to 40% of the chicks in any given nest could have a different father. Then again, it's probably about the same rate among the human kids in my suburban nieghbouhood too.

FranksWildYears commented 31 days ago.
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A kibbutz is a collective living arrangement that you'll find in Isreal.
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