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[LEFT]When an institution so central to human experience suddenly changes shape in the space of a generation or two, it's worth trying to figure out why. This fall the Pew Research Center, in association with TIME, conducted a nationwide poll exploring the contours of modern marriage and the new American family, posing questions about what people want and expect out of marriage and family life, why they enter into committed relationships and what they gain from them. What we found is that marriage, whatever its social, spiritual or symbolic appeal, is in purely practical terms just not as necessary as it used to be. Neither men nor women need to be married to have sex or companionship or professional success or respect or even children — yet marriage remains revered and desired.
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Sad commentary on society: Four in 10 say marriage is becoming obsolete
Four in 10 say marriage is becoming obsolete | US National Headlines | Comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20101118/US.Declining.Marriage/ - broken link)
This a really sad commentary on society....I think its no coincidence that there are more problems with kids today and there is not much family stability these days. My kids are becoming the minority at school with having 2 married parents under one roof with the same last name. When today's kids grow up, they are going to have such a distorted view of love, relationships, and family. My parents are divorced, and when I was growing up, it was me who was in the minority, and I was always jealous of my friends who had intact families.
I was watching my local news here in the Southern California area, and they asked Do You Believe in Marriage? I have been with my wife for 23 years, and we have been married for 19. Marriage isn't a fairy tale as many would like it to be. But, I believe that a marriage is what you make out of it. I think that a marriage is both people giving 100% to each other, both giving each other space, and respecting each other. I think that marriage is primarily for people who both are committed to staying together for the long haul for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, for sickness or health, and until death.
I was watching my local news here in the Southern California area, and they asked Do You Believe in Marriage? I have been with my wife for 23 years, and we have been married for 19. Marriage isn't a fairy tale as many would like it to be. But, I believe that a marriage is what you make out of it. I think that a marriage is both people giving 100% to each other, both giving each other space, and respecting each other. I think that marriage is primarily for people who both are committed to staying together for the long haul for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, for sickness or health, and until death.
This is a tough question; for a while I had preached about how marriage was a major complication between love and law. But I also feel that when you do meet that right person, you can't help but think of the future and sharing that moment with someone either. I guess overall I would persue a commonlaw marriage. I feel marriages and weddings seem like big sacrifice to prove their love to someone, but it's really just staying with the person and having the same love and vibrations.
Personally, I don't believe having a piece of paper and going through a ceremony means a whole lot relationship wise, but that's a personal thing. Do you really think getting married has ever stopped anyone from cheating? Or harming their significant other? Or having children with other men/women?
I've known many couples that are very happy together, have children together and have lived together for many many years without being married. I've also known couples who have gotten married because of accidental pregnancies or pressure from family.
I think it's up to the individual couple to decide what's best for them, but I don't think marriage is the end all be all of happy coupledom.
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Marriage: What's it Good For?
