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Marriage is under quiet attack, with several prominent media outlets normalizing polygamy and relationship instability. Last week, New York magazine encouraged homewrecking and non-spousal crushes, having previously profiled a woman who divorced her implied-lazy husband to raise their child with another woman. The New York Times has highlighted Tumblr-era “feminist” Lindy West’s polygamous marriage in an interview about her recent memoir. Even the Wall Street Journal and New York Post gave uncritical airtime to “throuples” and infidelity, respectively.
While alternative relationship arrangements have been on the rise in recent years, this positive coverage makes these relationships seem far more popular than they are. There’s a difference between choosing “alt” arrangements and the chattering classes pretending as though they are normal. “There’s plenty of evidence at this point that a normie stable family life with two parents is best for kids and communities,” according to Kay Hymowitz, an expert on family and cultural change in America. There’s also plenty of evidence that non-monogamy is terrible for women.
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Carolyn D. Gorman is a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute.