Why do lesbians divorce more often?
Yes I know you are waiting for the exposition on the new admixture results (I too am excited), but first something else. I, Hypocrite has this viral post on X:…
People did not used to marry early in the good old times
If you look at a plot of age of first marriage and age of first birth (usually following marriage), you might get the idea that the 1960s cultural revolution, feminism…
The benefits of marriage
If we have to name the single largest problem with social science in itself it is that of confounding (in real-life social science, the bigger issue is probably statistical cheating…
Give women what they want: more babies
Central to the decline of the West and now almost all high income countries is that they have too low fertility. Just a reminder from the prior post: Why the…
Does racial diversity cause lower fertility?
I know, it sounds like a far right conspiracy theory, however: Gurun, U. G., & Solomon, D. H. (2024). E Pluribus, Pauciores (Out of Many, Fewer): Diversity and Birth Rates.…
What has feminism done for women? Review of Louise Perry’s The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Self-proclaimed feminists like to describe their movement as being very diverse. This is not generally true, most of them hold more or less the same views. There are a few…
That 2005 study on IQ and marriage by sex
This study keeps getting attention. This otherwise alright Quillette piece: Mate Selection for Modernity Studies using data from classic online dating websites and speed-dating both found that men exhibited less…
How closely related is your spouse?
I have written on the children produced by mixed-race couples before, and since it went so well, it's time to try again. Only this time, another angle: the parents themselves.…