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Neil's avatar

I saw an article recently talking about the huge mental health impact on children from their parents splitting up. I wonder if that's a confounding variable we need to control for here? Most of these stats are from America where the conservatives might be significantly more likely to get married, which has a strong effect on staying together.

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Edrith's avatar

Don't I explicitly talk about this in Hypothesis 2? As well as putting getting married, staying married and being in a community that values marriage as being good things to do as the first item in my list of conclusions we might tentatively draw?

As I said, 'It is not exactly unconnected with their conservative views that conservatives are more likely to get married.'

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Neil's avatar

You absolutely do. What's happened here is that I had a thought years later and commented based on my memory of your post. This turns out to have been a spectacular overestimation of my memory.

Re-reading it can I just say that I love the expression "culture-warred into epistemic nihilism"? A sadly accurate description of too many things!

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