The most parsimonious way is also a most uninformative one. For example, you can figure out that being rich and healthy is better than being poor and sick. Als

The most parsimonious way is also a most uninformative one. For example, you can figure out that being rich and healthy is better than being poor and sick. Also: you say "divorce is bad for children" when a good share of those children were born by mothers who aren't in a marriage and never were (at least not with the father). What about those cases? "divorce" is not applicable to those.