But migration appears to be transforming marriage norms.
In addition, I also explore how malleable these normative beliefs are to changing social contexts by priming respondents with information on specific population trends transforming marriage markets (i.e. women's schooling).
But equally important in transforming marriage and family life are two welcome innovations - the growing expectation of mutual love in marriage and the decreasing ability of men to impose their will on women.
Thus, rather than reproducing sexist and heterosexist patterns, same-sex marriage could serve women's and gay liberation by transforming marriage, even, perhaps, opening the door to recognition of a still wider variety of family forms (Ferguson 2007, Mayo and Gunderson 2000, Calhoun 2005).
Thankfully, we have transformed marriage over the centuries, and certainly in this country over the past hundred years or so, much for the better for all those involved.
The book opens with a tone-deaf rhetorical flourish -- anointing Griffin as the Rosa Parks of marriage equality -- and goes on to suggest that Boies and Olson rescued the movement from a discredited state-by-state approach and transformed marriage equality into a national civil rights issue by boldly taking it to the Supreme Court.
In fact, you don't have to divorce at all; you can transform your marriage into a parenting marriage, a model we present in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.
But that doesn't mean those couples have to stay miserably together "for the kids". When parents transform a marriage into a parenting marriage the form of the relationship changes, but they continue their most important job -- parenting.
Over the decades ahead, their choices will gradually transform gay marriage from an idea into a culture: they'll determine the social expectations associated with gay wedlock, the gay marriage and divorce rates, the differences and similarities between gay and lesbian unions, the way marriage interacts with gay parenting, and much more besides.
The algorithm is rerun until all women have a satisfactory proposal.Sadly, "co-operative game theory" has not yet had the opportunity to transform the marriage market.
