Without data, your statement is tantamount to discrimination based on marital status which is problematic in the context of a thread regarding employee dismissa

Without data, your statement is tantamount to discrimination based on marital status which is problematic in the context of a thread regarding employee dismissal. Off the top of my head, I can think of a number of quite anti-social people (for different values of anti-social) that are married. For example, Joseph James DeAngelo (Golden State Killer) was once married, has adult children, but his anti-social behavior is well documented. [0] In another example Jennifer Hart and Sarah Hart were married and had many adoptee children. Hardly the stereotype of antisociality. And yet, in their private lives they very likely abused their adoptive children to the point of killing all their children as well as themselves. [1] Another example is David and Louise Turpin who imprisoned 13 children in their home. [2] In fact, there have been a number of high-profile survivor tales in the last several years of children escaping abusive parents. One news outlet gathers up a number of similar past cases with many of the offenders being married people. My aim in discussing these cases is neither to provoke nor sustain prurient interest in the antisocial behavior of married people. Nor is my aim to claim that married people are more likely to engage in abusive, antisocial behavior toward children. My aim is to destabilize your claim that "married men (and women) are universally much less likely to be exhibit anti-social behavior" which claim you make without providing a single shred of proof. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/us/golden-state-killer-serial.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/us/golden-state-killer-se... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/us/hart-family-crash.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/us/hart-family-crash.html [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TnYoss0eiM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TnYoss0eiM [3] https://www.news24.com/World/News/children-held-captive-previous-infamous-cases-20180116 https://www.news24.com/World/News/children-held-captive-prev... EDIT: Recast direct object in second sentence of third paragraph. Recast relative clause in last sentence.