Originally Posted by jlomon

I think you'd need to get a better look at the upbringing of Plato, Epicurus, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Smith, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Voltaire, Nietzsche, and Foucault to make a better determination on this front. They may not have married, but watching how their fathers related to their mothers would have been far more formative in developing attitudes towards women and families than the fact that none of them married as adults. By the time we're adults, we are pretty much who we're going to be. The damage was already done by age 5 or so.