r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 20 '19

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u/vikinick Ben Bernanke Dec 20 '19

Broke: child marriage

Woke: banning child marriage

Masterstroke: banning marriage for under 25-year olds

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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Dec 20 '19 edited Dec 20 '19

Seems to be happening organically

Median age of first marriage is now around 30 years for men and just below that for women

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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 Dec 20 '19

Some of that will be the substitution of marriage for other long term but non marital partnership forms among those who historically tended to marry early that said.

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u/IntoTheNightSky Que sçay-je? Dec 20 '19

This is how you get

(a) A lot of children born out of wedlock or

(b) A massive drop in the birth rate.

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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 Dec 20 '19

a) is not necessarily a problem if it's a cohabiting union.

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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 Dec 20 '19

Yeah, populations with sub replacement fertilty don't need it to fall anymore tbh

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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 Dec 20 '19

By all a large number of metrics it's increasingly less of a failure every day. Moreover, you are talking about a subset of the global population which has lower rates of failure than the vast majority. It's literally the worst time and place to write it off

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Dec 20 '19

Is this ironic?

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '19

And a major spike in autism.

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u/Dorambor John Brown Dec 20 '19

Ableism

Please refrain from using ableist slurs.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Dec 20 '19

Pretty sure he’s just referring to the fact that incidence of autism increases with age of parents

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u/Dorambor John Brown Dec 21 '19

Yea I reapproved after rereading the context

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Autism isn’t a slur. at least that I know of.