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The reason is that as women have delayed marriage, men still have a tendency to date and marry younger women.
When it comes to marriage men are advised to marry a woman who is half their years plus seven.
They are married to men for whom team loyalty is more powerful than marriage, men who are not emotionally connected to women".
Birth rates continued to be very high, despite both a traditional pattern of late marriage (men on the average at age 27, women at 24 or 25) and the beginnings of the practice of birth control, the effect of which was to become evident only after the Revolution.
"Even in societies that only have monogamous marriage, men are more likely to marry again after divorce, are likely to marry a younger wife and more likely than women to reproduce again with their new spouse," said Puts. "So what you get is a mating system that is effectively moderately polygynous even in monogamous societies".
Thus, in order to persuade women to enter into a polygynous marriage, men have to offer more economic resources than those provided in a monogamous marriage.
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In 2013, he told the House of Commons: "Frankly, I am a marriage man, I am a great supporter of marriage.
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But when the public went into the voting booth and the question was "Marriage: man and woman?" -- the answer, by a landslide, was "YES".
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