Forbes posts and then pulls controversial article about marriage

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So Forbes posted a column on Monday about how why men should not marry career women. And then today, they pulled it down, and later reposted it with a rebuttle from another writer on their staff-- a woman. Here's a clip of the original article.

Don't Marry Career Women
by Michael Noer
Forbes.com
August 21, 2006

Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career.

Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. While everyone knows that marriage can be stressful, recent studies have found professional women are more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat, less likely to have children, and, if they do have kids, they are more likely to be unhappy about it. A recent study in Social Forces, a research journal, found that women--even those with a "feminist" outlook--are happier when their husband is the primary breadwinner.

Read the rest of the article and the rebuttle here.

Who is this idiot? How dare he suggest that, because a woman is interested in pursuing her interests and earning her share of income, she's any less worthy of partnership than someone who chooses differently?

No scientific study can adequately determine the cause of happiness, or the terms or length or the quality of marriage, based on the extensive variables that must be considered.

And it seems he's only picking out the negative studies and the the negative aspects of the situation, and this is a one-sided journalistic misstep. It's ric*ckulous.