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Marriage Seen Through a Contract Lens - NYTimes.com


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all for some disruption with this

“We’re remarkably not innovative about marriage even though almost all the environmental conditions, writ large, have changed,” said Pepper Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Washington and author of books on love, sex and marriage. “We haven’t scrutinized it. We’ve been picking at it like a scab, and it’s not going to heal that way.”

Is the reason we haven't touched it because many people in America overreact when it gets touched?

hot button issue. touches economics, religion, culture, and politics

And all four of those are things that people get very excitable about.

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