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+ | ==========Monogamous versus Polyamorous Cultures========== | ||
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+ | “Monogamous”((Monogamous individuals only have sexual relationships with their spouse.)) and “polyamorous”((Polyamorous individuals engage in a wide variety of sexual relationships with multiple sexual partners either at once or over the course of one’s life. Polyamorous relationships include, but are not limited to, serial heterosexual relationships, | ||
+ | \\ Tim B. Heaton, " | ||
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+ | In between these two cultures lies the welfare state and its operational bureaucracy. The question is how this state bureaucracy can serve these two very different cultures. | ||
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+ | =====1. Coexistence===== | ||
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+ | Is it possible for these two cultures to live together in the same political order? Two issues leap to the fore in their political consequences: | ||
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+ | - //Money//. The culture of monogamy is inexpensive, | ||
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+ | =====2. Public Policy===== | ||
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+ | In the tension between monogamy and polyamory, whether by happenstance or deliberate design, the culture of polyamory has figured out its way to survive and even thrive. It does so by controlling three critical areas of public policy, which yield big gains in “converts” from the culture of monogamy to the culture of polyamory. These three areas are | ||
+ | - childhood education | ||
+ | - sexual education | ||
+ | - the control of adolescent health programs.((NCSL, | ||
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+ | Controlling these three expands the polyamory culture’s reach into the traditional monogamous culture and gradually dismantles it, especially when aided by the entertainment industry, which today especially, is a very powerful institution aligned with the culture of polyamory with a massive operative bias against the monogamy culture.((Carol J. Pardon, Kelly Ladin L’ Engle, and Jane D. Brown, “Linking Exposure to Outcomes: Early Adolescents’ Consumption of Sexual Content in Six Media,” //Mass Communication & Society// 8, no. 2 (May 2008): 84 and 88.)) | ||
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+ | By controlling these three areas (education of children, sexual education, and adolescent health), the culture of polyamory diminishes the influence and dismantles the authority of parents in the culture of monogamy, particularly in their ability to form their children as members of their own culture.((Bill Albert, “Parental Influence and Teen Pregnancy, | ||
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+ | =====3. The Sexual Ideal===== | ||
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+ | This “snatching” is almost complete when these three program areas result in adolescents accepting and engaging in sexual intercourse. | ||
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+ | Every time the polyamorous (anti-monogamy) programs((Future of Sex Education Initiative, “National Sexuality Education Standards: Core Content and Skills, K–12 (a special publication of the Journal of School Health)" | ||
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+ | * The adolescent has been initiated into the polyamorous culture (albeit without knowledge of what is at stake) by having his first sexual experience outside of marriage; | ||
+ | * With the out-of-wedlock births or abortions that follow, they have broken the family before it has started, | ||
+ | * And, especially, they have pulled the young person away from participating in the sacred, because formerly religious teenagers who begin to engage regularly in sex outside of marriage tend to stop worshipping God.((James M. Nonnemaker, Clea A. McNeely, and Robert W. Blum, “Public and Private Domains of Religiosity and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health,” //Social Science and Medicine//, Vol. 57, No. 11 (2003), 2049–2054.)) | ||
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+ | =====4. Polyamory' | ||
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+ | All this the culture of polyamory achieves without any overt, direct attack. It is silent, subtle, but very substantive in its outcomes. | ||
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+ | For instance, in the United States in the last decade, the rise of abstinence education— monogamy education—immediately galvanized the institutions of the culture of polyamory in the U.S. into massive political counter-attack, | ||
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+ | In Europe, where the culture of polyamory has greater sway, the clearest illustration of its continuing advance is the attack against home-schooling and home rearing, either in early childhood (up to six years of age) or throughout even longer periods of childhood. In homeschooling, | ||