Not the guy you're replying to, but a one-structure-fits-all mold for a family is a bit silly, as evidenced by the fact that we have a lot of outwardly 'traditional', nuclear families that aren't as traditional as they look.
For instance, the number of married, successful family men who have mistresses with the partial or sometimes full knowledge of their wives.
My personal opinion on the matter is that as long as children have near constant, direct access to at least one biological parent, and there is not a wide open path for sexually transmitted diseases, then that structure, whatever it is, will probably function successfully.
Women have never faced an external evolutionary pressure that decimated their population prior to propogating the next generation. Men have since before we were even human.
The fact that generations of young men have gone off to kill each other for tens of thousands of years is the reason polygamy works. The species would be extinct if population groups didn't figure a way to work around the gender imbalance war and conflict causes.
Not the guy you're replying to, but a one-structure-fits-all mold for a family is a bit silly, as evidenced by the fact that we have a lot of outwardly 'traditional', nuclear families that aren't as traditional as they look.
For instance, the number of married, successful family men who have mistresses with the partial or sometimes full knowledge of their wives.
My personal opinion on the matter is that as long as children have near constant, direct access to at least one biological parent, and there is not a wide open path for sexually transmitted diseases, then that structure, whatever it is, will probably function successfully.
So, polygamy. Or polyandry, I guess, but that's never been proven to foster a stable society for some reason. So, Islam was right about women. Again.
Women have never faced an external evolutionary pressure that decimated their population prior to propogating the next generation. Men have since before we were even human.
The fact that generations of young men have gone off to kill each other for tens of thousands of years is the reason polygamy works. The species would be extinct if population groups didn't figure a way to work around the gender imbalance war and conflict causes.