Open marriages

[Flying Pig]

When you're dealing with hormonal teenagers changing the gender of the instructor in the room sometimes totally resets the dynamic. Which can be useful when the dynamic is temporarily off the rails. Worked often enough to be useful when I did study hall/tutoring for alternative high school students. "Hard day? <silence> Have a seat. I'll check to see if you want to work on math later." Worked surprisingly often.

Is that what we'd call detention in the UK? I've always believed that a cool-off period is one of the best ways of defusing an angry situation.

 

[Farm Boy]

We generally say detention if the period is outside of standard school hours, or over a recess period for a child. It's punishment. Study hall is usually used to refer to a scheduled open study period. This school would also use them as cool-off periods. There were a lot of behavioral/medication/various issues going on with our students. A lot of them were on house arrest. Failing to succeed in the alternative highschool environment the next stop was generally the Juvenile Detention system. We made more space than standard for students not functioning at 100% in any given moment. At the end of the day there was structure, there was safety, there was food and heat, and there was learning most of the time.

 

[Goodfella]

Uh huh. That's based on my observation. And, incidentally, that article doesn't really have any bearing on my observation.

I'm just pointing out why restricting it to single women might matter.

 

[Zelig]

Marriage has a specific meaning and that is of exclusivity between one man and one woman. By having a sexual relationship with someone outside of the marriage is a violation of an agreement made when you got married. Pretty simple.

Marriage has a bunch of meanings.

See dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/marriage?s=t

noun 1. (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage.

Pretty simple.

 

[classical_hero]

When society goes against the family unit consisting of it being a bond of one man and one woman via marriage to raise children in that union, society always fails. Time is ticking.

 

[Zelig]

When society goes against the family unit consisting of it being a bond of one man and one woman via marriage to raise children in that union, society always fails. Time is ticking.

When has that ever happened?

 

[IglooDame]

When has that ever happened?

Sodom. Gomorrah. Pompeii. Carthage. The Holy Roman Empire. Atlantis. The Mayans. Nazi Germany. Detroit.

 

[aelf]

I'm just pointing out why restricting it to single women might matter.

Why? Not all married women have or will have children. I think that assumption is quite telling in itself.

 

[Narz]

When society goes against the family unit consisting of it being a bond of one man and one woman via marriage to raise children in that union, society always fails. Time is ticking.

In my last game of Civilization I discovered the "immoral marriage" advance & my society flourished. Must've been a glitch.