In math, a bifurcation is where the dynamics of a system lead to one thing being split into two. This quote makes it clear that the demise of the shotgun wedding with the sexual revolution was a bifurcation:
By making the birth of the child the physical choice of the mother, the sexual revolution has made marriage and child support a social choice of the father.
George Akerlof and Janet Yellen quoted in Best of the Web Today.





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Posted by: Karen | January 07, 2013 at 03:08 AM