WHAT DOES THE MEDIA CLASS HAVE AGAINST MONOGAMY?

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Why does the media love to push anything other than marriage? Feeding a presumed public appetite for the novel and transgressive, we are drip-fed stories about ‘polyamory’ and ‘open relationships’ so much that you start to wonder if we’re being prodded into trying it.

Perhaps journalists are just writing articles they think people want to read.

But why then do they so often make it sound like a promo for a new and subversive dating app?

The Times was at it again last week, with an article bringing its readers up to speed on ‘polycules’ – the latest name for certain forms of non-monogamous relationship. (It’s a combination of polyamory and molecule, because the various people in the ‘relationship’ have bonds like atoms in a molecule, apparently.)

For the people in the ‘polycule’, we’re told, “it is about getting optimum joy out of life”. “Poly people get to experience that delicious feeling you get when you fall in love with someone new, over and over again”, claims the Times, breathlessly.

The Daily Mail, not wanting to miss out, ran its own version of the article.

How about our newspapers actually tell people the truth about marriage for a change? Buried deep in the Mail’s version – but missing from The Times – was the telling fact that, in a 2020 survey, just 42% believed their non-monogamous relationships fulfilled all their needs, compared to around 80% in monogamous couples.

At C4M we know that marriage between a man and a woman – life-long and monogamous, it appears we need to add – has been shown time and time again to offer the best to couples, to children and to wider society. Real marriage lasts longer and is more stable than any other type of relationship. This is the great news people need to hear – not the latest fringe craze among those who are setting an example to no one.