WHY IS THE FIRST MOVE TO DECREASE POVERTY TO INCREASE THE ROLE OF THE MAN IN THE FAMILY
Marriage provides stability to the economy. The destructive, agressive, hostile behaviors of young unmarried men are substituted for cooperative behavior. The man provides the financial security and benefits of work for the women, the women provides the nurturing and family continuity through children. The inviability of the patriach stresses the man's role is to provide financal resources for his family. The first move to decrease poverty is to increase the role of the man in his family. In a monogamous marriage the man disciplines his sexuality and extends it into the future through the womb of the woman. The woman gives him access to his children, and he gives her the product of his labor, otherwise disspated into temporary pleasures. Work becomes the first principle for overcoming poverty. In Glider's book, "Sexual Sucide" in parts of Western Europe, a couple could not marry until the man had demonstrated his ability to provide for an independant household. Glider writes, "Sexual energies were directly tied to economic growth, and since a strong sanctions were imposed on premartial sex, population growth was directly tied to economic productivity."
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