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Is Marriage Obsolete?
Filed under: Divorce & Custody, Relationships
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This affects children as well. The study by the Pew Research Center also found that almost 30 percent of children under 18 "now live with a parent or parents who are unwed or no longer married," according to the AP.
What do you think? Is marriage obsolete?
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11-19-2010 @ 4:04PM
Alicia said...I don't think it's obsolete. Many people still want to get married. I just think that people have begun to realize that you don't need to be married to have a family or to be happy. Just because fewer people are getting married doesn't mean it's obsolete. Alternative and traditional families and views can coexist together as long as everyone is accepting of each other's viewpoints.
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11-22-2010 @ 9:51AM
Christine Vaughn said...I think it's sad to see happy marriages becoming a thing of the past. Children NEED a stable environment and a good example to copy when they grow up. This is lacking in many families now and it causes countless hardships. And not only does it make things hard on each person, but financially it can be difficult too. Http://bit.ly/SavingIdeas has some helpful tips (regardless of what your family situation currently is) and they have some great coupons as well.
11-20-2010 @ 10:35AM
Jeff said...If you cannot commit to marriage, then you should not have children. children are a bigger commitment, are a lifelong commit just as marriage should be, and they deserve to be brought-up with two parents, both male and female, who provide different levels of teaching, security and morals for children. This is God's design for marriage, and is what works best for well-rounded children. Again, if you are scared to commit to marriage, then how can you commit to having children and guarantee you will be there for them?
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11-20-2010 @ 10:59AM
Alicia said...Well-rounded children can happen regardless of marital situation, as long as there's love. Though your definition of love seems sadly narrow. I'm sorry your life is empty of the wonders of diversity and love of all sorts.
11-20-2010 @ 7:12PM
Sarah Mom said...Marriage definitely isn't necessary, but it isn't obsolete either. It's silly to poll people on pretty subjective stuff.
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11-21-2010 @ 5:30PM
Joy said...I believe marriage is just as important today as it was before. It is still a sacred ordeal that should not be taken lightly. If we each take our time in getting to know a person before calling them our boyfriend or girlfriend, stop moving our boyfriends or girlfriends into our apartments or homes(when we know either they are not marriage material or we just wont marry them for whatever reason), and make more concious decisions, we wont feel like marriage is obsolete. However, we as a generation made it ok to have a live-in mate when we should have never done that. Women do not realize that in a way our self worth is lowered by this action because the man feels he does not need to make the additional effort since he is already living with you. Men do not see it this way because they may geniuinly love the one they are with but if this is so, why not just marry her? and if you feel you shouldn't, won't or can't, I think thats when it is time to either move out until you feel you are ready to marry them or move on to someone that you believe you can potentially marry. Marriage has not become obsolete, we just need to take it more seriously.
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11-21-2010 @ 7:35PM
Alicia said...Only you can lower your self-worth and if you're so brainwashed as to place your self-worth in a relationship with a man, then you have bigger trouble than not being married.
Furthermore, if someone is non-religious why practice a ceremony that many people claim is religious.