Geoffrey MillerVerified account

Lineages merged. Inheritors designated. Alliances built across regions and generations. Eventually, civilization.

Other possibilities could include shackling male chaos, and providing stability for aging women.

Economic burden and cultural achievement

Voting as an actual married guy.

Can't decide. They're all corroborative in importance.

A culture that doesn't have raising children foremost on its mind is a dead culture. At the very least, adults should get of children's way

@DrDavidLey the sex, the intimacy. It's what I see single friends struggle with the most-lack of true intimacy.

Increased transactions costs and reduced supply of sex to young men might, in fact, fuel innovation. Wives and kids lower testosterone.

Don't really consider any of these to be important in modern society

Trick question, obviously answer is legitimacy/inheritance facilitating multi-generational capital accumulation