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In article <1693@beguine.UUCP> danielg@uncmed.med.unc.edu (Daniel Gene
Sinclair) writes:
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***For me, centuries of spontaneous monogamous behaviour is enough to
***convince me that SOME of us ARE naturally monogamous and that
***promiscuity, where it exists in SOME, is largely a culturally
***imposed phenomenon.
***
***Apologies if this seems to simplistic to Netters at large.
***
**Then explain the high rate of divorce.

	That is an interesting question in itself. Divorce is a
cross-cultural phenomenon. When people are not economically tied
together, there is little to stop them from separating. Which they
proceed to do.

	If a tendency to have monogamous relationships is biologically
programmed, then a tendency for them to evaporate after a couple of
years, especially for younger adults, may also be biologically
programmed.

	One shouldn't be ashamed of breaking up a relationship that
isn't working too well. Just work it out, one way or another, with
one's partner.

	I saw an article on this subject in a _Natural History_ called
"The Four-Year Itch".

	Its main conclusion was that temporary monogamy is the
"natural" condition for our species -- the condition arrived at when
under a minimum of outside constraint. Other styles are governed by
economic conditions. It may be economically impractical for people to
get divorced under some conditions.

	The article discussed selection pressures for various
lifestyles in various animal species, though it wisely concluded that
similar behavior in our species is usually cultural in origin -- a
genetic origin would require ridiculously fast evolution, for one.

*I suggest that this is for at least two reasons.  Firstly, men and women
*were created to firstly have a relationship with God.  Because we choose
*to leave God out of marriage these days (as well as on the periphery of
*our lives), we do not enjoy the help and blessing of God.
*
*Secondly, because we have not personally received Christ and surrendered
*to Him, we instead surrender to our own inherent selfishness.  When times
*get hard, it is easy to blame your partner, who is just as imperfect as
*you.  The only way to conquer this is to know Him.  Period.  
*
*No Jesus, No Peace.
*Know Jesus, Know Peace.
*
*Of course people call me a fundamentalist!  But if you knew Jesus, you'd
*be bananas for Him too!
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*     S A V E  T H E  W H A L E S  ,  K I L L  O U R  U N B O R N  ??  
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	Take this religious twaddle to talk.religion.misc or
soc.religion.christian.

	Not everybody enjoys this kind of proselytizing. Not everyone
would enjoy the thought of being one of Jesus Christ's slaves.

	And believing in Jesus Christ has not stopped a heck of a lot
of people from getting divorced. Ask a certain Ronald Wilson Reagan.

	And if you keep this up, I may have to e-mail you my Biblical
Satanic Verses -- everything in the Bible you don't want to hear
about. Nudity, incest, violence, arbitary rules, gross-outs, you name
it.


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