• Caitlin Flanagan's Defense of Marriage Bums Me Out

  Posted Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:54 PM | By Jessica Grose
  
  
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  It's been a rough couple of weeks for marriage. First, Sandra Tsing Loh came out swinging against the institution in the Atlantic (and we discussed it ad nauseam), and simultaneously Mark Sanford and John Ensign and the Gosselins paraded their broken relationships in front of the nation. In Time, Caitlin Flanagan takes up for long-lasting unions in an essay called "Why Marriage Matters." Flanagan's defense of marriage can be boiled down to: The reasons to get married are to raise children and not die alone ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
  Filed under: marriage, divorce, Caitlin Flanagan, sandra tsing loh, John Ensign, jon and kate plus 8, mark sanford
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