Cato Unbound > Print > Marriage and the Market
A super-interesting essay, again that I found somewhere but can’t remember/find from where, so if I’m crimping your feed, mea culpa. Basically, the gist of the authors’ point is that the role of marriage has shifted as the economy shifted, and vice versa, so the argument that we can’t change the institution of marriage (in the sense of allowing same-sex marriages) is ignoring the fact that it wouldn’t be the first time, and that the shifts in why people marry over even the last 100 years, or even 30 or 40 years, is what makes this such an appropriate time to consider such a thing as gay marriage in the first place.
There’s a juicy bit at the end, regarding how divorce peaked at the 70s and has gone down since then, and their reasoning why. It smacks something true to me, when I look at my own parents’ marriage, which ended in the 80s, and the kind of marriages they’re each in now.
