The 500 year war against marriage

[Ceece]

Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal

Marriage used to be a necessity for survival. It was society's safety net as was having children to care for the parents in their old age. Now we have the government stepping in to provide the "safety net" instead. We all pay the price.

Should women be chattle; or, for that matter should men? No, absolutely not. However, it should not be the place of the government to step in instead as the safety-net either. The destruction of marriage, IMO, has gone hand in hand with the destruction of family and personal responsibility. One cannot be divorced from another when considering cause and effect. YMMV

Key words highlighted. So if it's not necessary how do you make it work today?

[lifelongMOgal]

Originally Posted by Ceece

Key words highlighted. So if it's not necessary how do you make it work today?

The word 'necessary' is yours, not mine. I stated it used to be a requirement of survival. Marriage is still optimal however in today's society it is more difficult because enduring marriages are no longer the norm.

Individuals practice personal responsibility for their own lives, the cost of their care, retirement, etc... . They forge relationships, be it with friends or other family members, to help see them through the hard times or their later years instead of being dependant on government since they have no spouse or children upon whom to depend.

[WesternPilgrim]

Originally Posted by JazzyTallGuy

People still want to get married they are just doing it a hell of a lot less than they used ti.

It's a personal choice. For a lot of people in the United States it has less of an appeal than in decades past.

If people want to get married they will continued to get married.

Marriage is always going to haunt people. Even liberals who don't believe in marriage still want to get married it seems:


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