“where you sourced your information on medieval cohabitation” heard or read it in a doc, recently probably on France culture, roughly the equivalent of your NPR but specialized in arts sciences history and philosophy docs.
the finding was drawn from the notaries’ minute books, which, unlike the priests’ parish registers, recorded all contracts involving the division of property and communities of material interests. obviously this type of situation was more common in urban centres than in small rural communities.
I already knew from my history studies that the age of marriage was quite late in those days – all the more so if you take into account the much lower life expectancy. But I had always thought that the sexual question was regulated by the existence of brothels until people were in a position to start a family .
our problem is not that people are married or not ; our problem is that white people does not make enough babies.
I don’t believe in the story of a plot conceived from the outset to destroy marriage: it’s rather the sedimentation of multiple, seemingly minor decisions that produces the contemporary result
For example, financial support for women was introduced in response to the situation in the 1960s, when, unlike today, couples tended to break up on the initiative of men, leaving housewives with no professional experience to bring up children on their own.
But today this sedimentation is producing a legal situation that is intrinsically contrary to my interests, and I have no reason to support it just to fit in with a conservative clichéesque image of what the perfect society of 60 years ago might have been (it wasn’t, because it produced this situation).
you can live as a couple and have kids, and being really commited as the lifelong provider for them without being married. and I think that in this situation, it would be stupid to give a partner a right of control over the relationship that gives her a potential material interest in the case she wants to end it, especially since the prenups are of nzero valor since trampled by you own courts.