Marriage is not only being mocked in our culture,
it is being desecrated (gay mirage).
The writing’s on the wall, America.
60 years ago we had Leave it to Beaver. That was mocked throughout the 1970’s and 80’s.
WE were making fun of naivete and simple values. 50 Years ago we had “My Three Sons” and towards the end of that series, Fred remarries a woman with a daughter.
45 Years ago we breached the traditional Nuclear family with the Brady Bunch. Then we had the “Waltons”.
30 Years ago we moved further away from tradition with “Who's the Boss”.
20 years ago we got “Sienfield” “Friends” and then “Sex in the City”.
As we “progressed” we saw the devolution of the “typical” wholesome family. This was something to ridicule where nobody seems content and they all spend time with friends in an apartment always finding it difficult to commit to another person.
The Baby Boomers are a screwed up generation of narcissism and loneliness. This leads to Depression. I am a baby boomer too but I am a traditionalist and married with 3 kids. We grew up in a very cynical time from the assassination of JFK in 1963 down to Watergate and the Fall of Saigon. Then we got Gerald Ford's “Whip Inflation Now” (WIN) buttons and failed Swine Flu shots. Carter's “malaise” speech did us in along with the fall of the US Embassy in Tehran.
In short, we live desperate lives of frivolous enjoyment, freedom, mass and very personal communication, gourmet foods and over indulgence. We have no time for intimacy and commitment because everything is instant gratification. Who has time to marry when we are having so much damn fun? This is reflected in pop culture, film, literature and general media so we wind up with these frustrated girls eating lunch out everyday talking about how unfulfilled they are. It seems like a never-ending spiral.
How one person regards marriage really should have no affect on how YOU regard marriage. Individuals are completely capable of adopting and living to high moral standards regardless of the containing society.