7 Reasons Marriage Is Falling Apart in America

Townhall.com ^ | April 6, 2013 | John Hawkins

[stonehouse01]

“It’s the fault of Wal-Mart and McDonalds.”

It is their fault!! They created this mess!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

1) Government policies

2) Public schools

3) Universities

4) MSM

[stonehouse01]

“...Not only the programs, but also the commercials..”

Avoid TV - unwatchable for the discerning.

[Lexinom]

I don’t know why they did it. I’m a single man and wish I could find a woman like that in my age group. Almost to a person they do not value romance and chivalry and expect to be jumped on the first date. I guess I’m odd for a guy, but I find that both distasteful and disgusting.

[thecodont]

Well, I wish there were more men like you.

[CapnJack]

My girlfriend and I are planning to get married this July, but am seriously debating to file a marriage license.

With Obamacare coming, and possibly seeing the prospect of loosing employer health coverage it would possibly be best not to be married.

Since she works part time, she would be able to get fully subsidized coverage from the gov’t and if we have a child, he/she would be covered under her Obamacare policy.

I would just pay the fine for not having any until I need it then sign up.

The prospect of having to pay $25,000/yr for a plan to cover a family would be about 1/3 my take home salary and leave hardly anything else for mortgage/bills/etc...

I can see the divorce rate go way up after Obamacare as people won't be able to afford care and companies drop coverage and pay the “fine”.

[thecodont]

When I was very small, I dreamt of entering an enchanted adulthood like that envisioned in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (as seen on TV, 1965).

What followed:

The Pill.

Vatican II.

"Women's liberation." "Free to Be You and Me." (Remember that one?)

Roe v. Wade.

The world I entered as an adult is a very bleak landscape.

I cringe when I hear a woman refer to her live-in male companion as her "partner" as if it's some bloodless business arrangement.

I walk by an Arthur Murray Dance Studio and wonder if they still have any business.

I remember when ladies wore hats and gloves, and men wore suits and ties, and opened doors for ladies and walked curbside to protect them.

I remember when marriage (man and woman marriage, so sorry I have to define what has been traditional!) was something to cherish and look forward to.

I remember when a date was supposed to end with a kiss under the porch light.

Silly me.

[kearnyirish2]

I liked the “incubator” reference; too true.

Welfare was reformed because the breeding of suburban Americans starting resembling that of the permanent urban underclass; now all Americans are subsidizing the “replacement Americans”, not needed for workers so much as students in our classrooms and consumers (not producers) of other “services”.

[Lexinom]

Nope, I’m different. The different are culled from the herd and (according to conventional wisdom) destroyed. This man, though, won’t go without a fight for right.

[Responsibility2nd]

5) Hollywood/TV

6) Popular Music

[ro_dreaming]

100% of all divorces started in marriage.

Being told the majority of things I do are wrong (cooking, cleaning, etc) I am at the point of why bother?

The Caucasian male is the butt of most jokes, the imbecile, the bigot, the liar, cheater, drunk, murdering rapist pedophile. We get that treatment on TV, radio, work, and now at home. Is there any wonder why American men are marrying foreign women?

If anything happened to my American wife, I can safely say I would never marry another American.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yep

[hosepipe]

I have no idea what Logans Run is, however I do know that this country is brain washed to the extent that they are oblivious.

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Logans Run—>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUUnc1M0TA

[b9]

Dr. Laura used to tell women to find a guy who’d swim through shark-infested waters to bring them a lemonade.

I love my husband.
He’s put up with me for 37 years.
The man’s a saint.

[stonehouse01]

“...we conservatives need to push back harder...”
It is way too late for push back. We have to lead and it has to be our teens/early twenties who can do it.

I am skeptical - very few can raise their children against this grain. Good luck to all

[stonehouse01]

Post of the day!!!! Mine has put up with me for 35!!!

[b9]

";^)

[Ouderkirk]

Guys see other guys financially destroyed by divorce, and their kids alienated from them. Most of the time, the guy didn't do anything other than not being fulfilling or exciting any more.

I've seen many of my friends dumped by their wives when they found boyfriends they considered less boring or more prosperous.

And therein is the problem. After a divorce I was ruined financially for 15 years. I had zero say in any of it. I lived in the "hood" because I couldn't afford better, drove a POS car because I simply couldn't afford better, and if I had the temerity to purchase a newer car my CS payments went up in the equal amount to the loan amount. Almost zero contact with my kids. Zero prospects for a girlfriend since I had no disposable income for things like "dates". Ivy League educated Engineer/Project Manager and I had less than two nickels to rub together

Not that I wouldn't have gotten married again, there were no takers at that time, and a girlfriend would have been grounds to raise the CS even further.

[stonehouse01]

Absolutely correct - I might reverse or adjust the order though.

[familyop]

Agreed with everything in your comment #27: great observations and truth.

"It's like they know the best..and it comes across as they must control us ..not making sure the government is not over stepping. They only want to grow it more into our lives. They're doing activities and over reaches like we read about in books of earlier civilizations. I wonder often, why we have the rebellion 60's movement in charge. They are the last group that needs this kind of power."

I can tell you why. The most publicized and/or influential '60s counter-culture kids were the children of the crop of the most influential constituents before them. They were bound to be in influential positions. It's not all merit-based ("who you know"). The moral slide was gradual at first and not so much noticed, then accelerated. Notice what the moral slide has done to potential new competition (crushed scattered families, regulations, "free" trade, political correctness and so on).