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The court said Mr Chey had not shown "any signs of remorse for his foul behaviour in the course of the trial... nor respect for monogamy" and said the new settlement took into account Ms Roh's suffering over her ex-husband's extramarital affair.

From BBC

But even with all that adulting, cooking, monogamy and poetry, the dude still couldn’t promise forever.

One argument suggests that monogamy can increase the chances that parents will cooperate to care for their offspring, since fathers are more confident the young are theirs.

The newly found adrenal cells promote parenting behavior typical of monogamy, the researchers noted.

There is, in fact, a fairly rigorous body of research that offers insight into the ways people live and love outside monogamy, research that can help ground the cultural conversation in empirical reality rather than leave it to freewheeling expressions of preference or moralizing opinion.

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