{"id":1240,"date":"2004-12-02T12:34:45","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T20:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/02\/another-post-on-same-sex-spousehood-in-scandinavia\/"},"modified":"2004-12-02T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T20:34:45","slug":"another-post-on-same-sex-spousehood-in-scandinavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"Another post on Same-Sex Spousehood in Scandinavia"},"content":{"rendered":"

For folks who are following the Scandinavian debate, this post by Bj\u00c3\u00b8rn St\u00c3\u00a6rk <\/a>(from back in February) will be of interest.<\/p>\n

I’m sure the numbers are correct: Less marriage, more children out of marriage. And if you agree with the assumption that American family values are important you’ll find that worrisome. I don’t, but none of this is relevant as it says nothing about any connection between gay marriage <\/i>(or partnership as it’s known here) and these trends. There is a correlation, but correlation is not causation. More likely both trends are caused the liberalization of sexual values that began in the 70’s. This tells us that where people abandon traditional sexual values, they are more likely to have children out of marriage and to support gay marriage. It does not tell us that by preventing legal recognition of gay marriage you can make people return to traditional sexual values.<\/div>\n

He goes on to point out that even if SSM caused some trends in Scandinavia<\/i> – which hasn’t even come close<\/i> to being proven – that still doesn’t tell us much about what will happen in the USA, which is culturally and legally very different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For folks who are following the Scandinavian debate, this post by Bj\u00c3\u00b8rn St\u00c3\u00a6rk (from back in February) will be of interest. I’m sure the numbers are correct: Less marriage, more children out of marriage. And if you agree with the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssm-the-scandinavian-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}