Reddit reviews The Ring Makes All the Difference: The Hidden Consequences of Cohabitation and the Strong Benefits of Marriage

Pregnancy begins from the moment of fertilization.. You concede that hormonal birth control impedes the continuation of pregnancy by preventing implantation, and it is thus an abortifacient. In the future try to understand your opponent's position before you accuse them of being ignorant of the facts.

>My next point is that less comprehensive sexual education always leads to more teen pregnancy because knowledge is power, not endorsement of behavior. Look at very conservative states and compare their teenage pregnancy situations to that of more liberal ones. You can even see the trends throughout Presidential administrations. Up with Bush, down with Obama, and I bet it'll rise again now with Trump cutting funding and placing emphasis back on abstinence instead of comprehensive.

Studies indicate that sex ed doesn't do anything. The deciding factor (at least in the US) is the attitude of the parents and what they are teaching the kids. That points to this being a culture problem, not an education problem that schools can fix. The teen birth rates have fallen even though Trump is president (I'm not sure what his department of education's stance is on sex ed though).

>There is no way to "rebuild marriage culture" and how you summarize some of these aspects in the past are why marriage isn't taken seriously any more. Younger generations know at least a few couples who married because of a shotgun, to be cheeky about it. Are they really happy? Did they raise the kids well? Maybe a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs, but watching two miserable people try to salvage together some Frankenstein marriage didn't raise healthy children.

Statistically this is wrong. Violence is twice as high with cohabiting couples vs married couples. Severe violence is 5x more likely. Live in boyfriends are 4x more likely than husbands to cheat in the past year, women who were cohabiting were 8x more likely than wives to cheat. The poverty rate for children in married households is 6 percent. 31 percent of children in cohabiting households are impoverished and 45 percent of children in single parent households are impoverished. The lack of stability that comes with both partners being committed to one another for life really has the potential to ruin a child's development.

>Universal healthcare produces greater outcomes for less money.

How much is not having that 21 week average waiting period for specialist treatment worth to you? That never gets factored in.

>They have a better life expectancy and report more happiness.

Wasn't that true before they implemented socialized health care?