Marriage Alternatives Continue to Arise to the Detriment of Families

A recent article on marriage alternatives glorifies the trend toward Threesome Marriages - or what is popularly known as a Triad Marriage.  Read the entire story at:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-07/threesome-marriages/full/ .  Triad marriage has also been discussed on major television news stations as well.

In 2000 I was asked to detail future implications of domestic partnerships in an article published by the Journal of Family Studies entitled "How Will the Proliferation and Recognition of Domestic Partnerships Affect Marriage?" 

Touching on this subject of companionate marriage my research revealed that generativity, the concept that marriage between a man and a woman is encouraged by society for the future of the common good, is the basis for marriage policy in nations that embrace concepts of freedom and liberty.

 Family restoration begins with a solid understanding of the meaning and purpose of marriage.  In another 50 years, our culture will be entirely different - one way or the other.

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Professor Kohm's publications are available on the web.  To read this and other related articles, as well as those which have cited to her work, see citations listed below.

How Will the Proliferation and Recognition of Domestic Partnerships Affect Marriage? 4 J. FAM. STUD. 105 (2002); also available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol13/papers.cfm. (cited in Katherine Shaw Spaht, Revolution and Counter-Revolution: The Future of Marriage in the Law, 49 LOYOLA L. REV. 1 (Spring 2003); Lynn D. Wardle, Counting the Costs of Civil Unions: Some Potential Detrimental Effects on Family Law, 11 WIDENER J. PUB. L. 401 (2002); Michael Scaperlanda, Kulturkampf in the Backwaters: Homosexuality and Immigration Law, 11 WIDENER J. PUB. L. 475 (2002); Katherine Shaw Spaht, The Last One Hundred Years: The Incredible Retreat of Law from the Regulation of Marriage, 63 LA. L. REV. 243 (Winter 2003); Herma Hill Kay, “Making Marriage and Divorce Safe for Women” Revisited, 32 HOFSTRA L. REV. 71 (2003); Lynn D. Wardle, The Curious Case of the Missing Legal Analysis, 18 B.Y.U. J. PUB. L. 309 (2003); Lynn D. Wardle, 116 HARV. L. REV. 1026 (2003); Nancy K. Kubasek, Alex Frondorf and Kevin J. Minnick, Civil Union Statutes: A Shortcut to Legal Equality for Same-Sex Partners in a Landscape Littered with Defense of Marriage Acts, 15 J. LAW. & PUB. POL'Y 229 (Spring 2004); Appendix A, Law Review Articles citing Baker v. Vermont, Justin W. Starr, 18 BYU J. PUB.L 353 (2004); Nancy D. Polikoff, Making Marriage Matter Less: The ALI Domestic Partner Principles Are One Step In The Right Direction, 2004 U. CHI. LEGAL F. 353; Mary Kay Kisthardt, 19 J. AM. ACAD. MATRIMONIAL L. 223 (2005); Domestic Partnerships: What the United States Should Learn from France’s Experience, 24 PENN ST. INT’L L. REV. 683 (2006); Laura A. Rosenbury, Friends with Benefits? 106 MICH. L. REV. 189 (2007); Melissa Durand, From Political Questions to Human Rights: The Global Debate on Same-Sex Marriage and its Implications for U.S. Law, 5 REGENT J. INT’L L. 269 (2007); Erin Cleary, New Jersey Domestic Partnership Act in the Aftermath of Lewis v. Harris: Should New Jersey Expand the Act to Include All Unmarried Cohabitants? 60 RUTGERS L. REV. 519 (2008); Shahar Lifshitz, A Potential Lesson from the Israeli Experience for the American Same-Sex Marriage Debate, 22 BYU J. PUB. L. 359 (2008)).

The Collateral Effects of Civil Unions on Family Law, 11 WIDENER J. PUB. L. 451 (2002)(cited in John G. Culhane, The Heterosexual Agenda, 13 WEIDNER L. J. 759 (2004); Melissa Durand, From Political Questions to Human Rights: The Global Debate on Same-Sex Marriage and its Implications for U.S. Law, 5 REGENT J. INT’L L. 269  (2007)).

Fairness, Accuracy and Honesty in Discussing Homosexuality and Marriage, 14 REGENT L. REV. 249 (2002) coauthored with Dr. Mark Yarhouse(reprinted at SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK www.SSRN.com, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=269418 (May 2002).