How do happy, loving, heterosexual relationships/marriages benefit the human species?

This is a question which was asked of me on a conference call with the CEO of the dating service I work for. He is looking for the opinions of all the employees and wants us to come up with a paragraph, documentation, something to prove why it is beneficial. Are there any sites out there which can prove this? Obviously an unhappy marriage can be detrimental, but how can a happy marriage be more beneficial than if you were single? Are there certain statistics to prove this theory?

Besides ensuring the continuation of the species, happy married people live longer, are sick away from work less, and are more productive than their unhappy, unmarried counterparts.

Where you want to do your research is not on the internet, but using a scholarly database such as PSYCInfo, ERIC, ProQuest, or JSTOR.

most universities will allow you use their on-site computers to do such research.

some offer off-site connections but that's rare if you are not a student.

good luck!

Three things:

1. It has been proven that people in healthy, permanent relationships live longer. You can google that fact.

2. It has been proven that people in healthy, permanent relationships raise children who are more stable and successful. There are exceptions to this rule, though, because it is based on child-rearing and environment that can be impacted by many different factors, but statistically speaking it is easier to manage those factors in a healthy marriage.

3. People who are in "happy, loving" relationships are HAPPY! What else do you want!? LOL!

Does he want opinions, or a factual essay?

I think the best answer you could give, assuming it is opinions that he wants, is just what you personally feel. Do you want to get married? If so, why? What makes it beneficial to you? There's your answer.

Statistically, people that are happily married live longer than those that are not married or unhappily married. I don't know where you can find that stat to document it, but I've always heard that to be true.

Why are you restricting this to "heterosexual" marriages????? Why not any marriage?????

Stats prove married people live longer.Then of coarse there are the babies.As someone who has been divorced for about 14 years,completely alone and celibate for the last 5 years it sucks!