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Well, there are an infinite number of lifestyles to be lived. I doubt there are good numbers on dormitory-style lifestyles, for instance. But current numbers sh

Well, there are an infinite number of lifestyles to be lived. I doubt there are good numbers on dormitory-style lifestyles, for instance. But current numbers show that married households fare well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#Poverty_and_family_status https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#P... https://www.ssa.gov/retirementpolicy/fact-sheets/marital-status-poverty.html https://www.ssa.gov/retirementpolicy/fact-sheets/marital-sta... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240051/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240051/

brandelune 9y ago
Married households fare well because the tax system and plenty of other institutions favor married households. It doesn't have to the the case. Marriage is mostly a "capital" redistribution system and with strong public services (ie shared services) there is much less need to focus on the nuclear family as a protection (sharing of ressources) network. Ex. When a few years back pension laws changed in Japan and housewives got the right to get a pension separately from their husband, the rate of divorce boomed. There is nothing in the nuclear family that makes in a natural fit to what humans are as social animals.