Sir Mark Potter And The Protection Of The Traditional Family: Why Same Sex Marriage Is (Still) A Feminist Issue

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English only.Mark Cherry’s critical reflection on same-sex marriage is based on a general discussion of the culture war between the traditional view of the family and the liberal view. He discloses three kinds of social and moral risks in the cultural transformation from the traditional family to the post-modern family, and casts doubt on the goal of the legalization of same-sex marriage in contemporary society.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 91 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

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Explaining Support for Same-Sex Marriage: Evidence from Taiwan

International Journal of Taiwan Studies ◽

10.1163/24688800-00202006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 321-340 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Timothy S. Rich ◽

Andi Dahmer ◽

Isabel Eliassen

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Court Decision ◽

Constitutional Court ◽

Same Sex ◽

Family Structures ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

Traditional Family

What explains Taiwan’s vacillating support for same-sex marriage? Despite earlier favourable public opinion and a Constitutional Court decision in 2017 in favour of legalisation, anti-lgbt referendums in 2018 found overwhelming support. We argue that the framing of same-sex marriage as undermining traditional family structures allowed opponents to shift the national discussion on legalisation. Our results suggest that supporters and the Tsai administration may have overestimated the extent to which opinions on legalisation were firm.

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Differential fertility makes society more conservative on family values

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.1918006117 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 117 (14) ◽

pp. 7696-7701

Author(s):

Tom S. Vogl ◽

Jeremy Freese

Keyword(s):

Family Size ◽

Public Support ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Family Values ◽

Same Sex ◽

Differential Fertility ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

Traditional Family ◽

Evolutionary Forces ◽

Family Issues

Data from the General Social Survey indicate that higher-fertility individuals and their children are more conservative on “family values” issues, especially regarding abortion and same-sex marriage. This pattern implies that differential fertility has increased and will continue to increase public support for conservative policies on these issues. The association of family size with conservatism is specific to traditional-family issues and can be attributed in large part to the greater religiosity and lower educational attainment of individuals from larger families. Over the 2004 to 2018 period, opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion was 3 to 4 percentage points more prevalent than it would have been were traditional-family conservatism independent of family size in the current generation. For same-sex marriage, evolutionary forces have grown in relative importance as society as a whole has liberalized. As of 2018, differential fertility raised the number of US adults opposed to same-sex marriage by 17%, from 46.9 million to 54.8 million.

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