I disagree with his conclusion though https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1052082295539097600 … Marriage/community are social techs developed to alleviate bad-father effects; across a population, where marriage is more common social ills associated with single motherhood are less
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That's sound although I do think we need to be serious about asking: what evidence would we accept that intact family *doesn't* matter?
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And what happened to the neighborhoods in the 20th century could have been something like mutation load? Interesting thought. I'd say a population where intact families don't outperform non-intact ones. Lots of confounds though.
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I think the idea of separating it from economic effects is also misguided; the q. they mean to ask is "Well could we solve it with transfer payments?" but those create their own problems
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It could well be the case that *all* the problems intact families solve are *exclusively* economic (at least, at the first order) and still be the case that they are the unique solution
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It's also simplistic to imagine that separation implies all these bad traits in fathers. At the very least bad mother genes could be causing trouble too; we don't know if those bad dads are successes elsewhere.
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no, read the thread; that is specifically excluded because they have sororal controls
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ah, right
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