Is It Time to Abandon Monogamy?

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By Ken Ham

Should we abandon the idea of lifelong, monogamous marriage? That was the question asked in a recent article in New Scientist by Jessica Bond, who argues that, because we’re not very good at monogamy, perhaps it’s time to make “consensual non-monogamous” relationships—in which partners have multiple sexual relationships, but everyone involved knows about it—a norm in our society.

This argument flows from her naturalistic evolutionary worldview (and the relative morality that comes out of such a belief). She argues that monogamy is a relatively recent development in our evolutionary ancestry and that, in the past, our supposed human ancestors practiced …read more

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