Posted on 06/10/2012 5:08:04 AM PDT by Conservaliberty
Okay folks, I’m just going to jump right into it. The Huffington Post just posted a piece asking for the government forbidding the practice of marriage for young people. The author writes, "couples should not be allowed to get married before age 25."
I know what you’re thinking…hipsters.
You’d be correct. No longer confined to the ever-changing world of ironically ugly fashion, hipsters are now applying their trendy outlook to their very own values, demanding that the government enforce them onto others in the process.
“Who knows? Maybe there are 20-year-olds that get married and stay madly in love for their whole lives… Maybe there is such thing as fairies and unicorns too.”
Yes, this is actually the crux of an argument that author Jennifer Nagy genuinely believes to be factually sound. Writing a rebuttal almost feels wrong, as one can truly sense how proud she was of her accomplishment. Clearly, she’s very pleased with herself...
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There will be violent protests by bearded muzzies over this.
Profit Mohammed married a six year old, didn’t he?
Sometimes I wonder if the decay of traditional marriage isn’t actually the heterosexual’s fault. Straight people have de-valued marriage so much, we shouldn’t be surprised when the deviants start trying to hijack it.
I wish more people could understand that.
And of course they will not also want to bump up the legal age for cohabitation. This is sick wicked (but not as though many other things promoted on DU aren’t sick wicked too).
Apparently Jennifer Nagy has never witnessed the effects on urban areas where no one gets married and young men run around making babies with every single girl they can find. I hope she included a demand for abstinence as part of her proposal, but I won’t hold my breath.
I’m sure everyone she knows spent their 20’s “growing up” in college, but I don’t think these “intellectual elites” understand was a stabilizing for marriage is on young men who actually consider themselves adults at age 18.
We live in a rural area and the 20-somethings that have a wife and kids go to work and try to provide for their families. The ones who don’t spend all their time and money partying and barely staying out of trouble.
She’s probably just seeking “societal affirmation” for her crowd’s inability to make a commitment and stick with it.
She has also confused “falling in love” (i.e. getting smacked up the side of the head by emotion - Cupid’s arrow), which can ebb and flow, with real love.
As in “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
Love is real work, and love is much more than mere “fun”. Love is true Joy!
Wow- this Jennifer Nagy could replace Maureen Dowd as the Bitter, Rejected, Alcoholic Libtard Loser Journalist of the Year.That's who I first thought of when I read this piece, The Bitter One.
IMHO, an early 20-something today is a WHOLE lot less mature (and ready for the rest of their lives) than the same early 20-something of 40, 30, and even 20 years ago.
Parenting, the education system, and the world's economic reality, for the last 10-15 years or so, leaves a lot to be desired for getting a youngster ready for what's on their horizon.
I find it unbelievabble that some would like to see marriage restricted to 25 or older. Sounds like a democrat planned program to control the masses.
Let’s see, I was a 22 yo Marine sergeant and my bride was a 21 yo lance corporal. That was 40 years ago, two degrees for me, one for her, completion of a military career as an AF officer, three kids, four grandkids, a long happy life.
I know plenty of people who waited and their marriages didn’t fare so well. Getting married before 25 is not always too young and it is not anyone else’s business.
I got married at 20. Thirty-five years later, my wife is still putting up with me.
Married at 20. It’s been 36 years so far.
My two uncles on my mother’s side both married at 16. Marriages lasted decades, both ending only when a spouse died. (I agree this is too young.) This is of course unusual because such very young marriages are much more common for girls.
Anecdotal evidence, no doubt, but still evidence.
I beg to differ from the unexamined assumption that five or ten years of promiscuity is the proper preparation for a lasting marriage commitment.
Wow, Steven’s really moving up!
Did you guys know that Steven was one of the voices of The Brain on Arthur?
Thinking about starting my Crowder ping list back up. He makes the FUNNIEST videos!
I rest my case.
It’s like this one author said, ‘I’ve been married for 20 years, about half of that was happily married’
Maybe the reason people don’t stay married is that they have this Hollywood notion that you must be passionate every day like when you first met. Kids and jobs just make that not realistic.
AGAIN, my point exactly.
You are absolutely correct.
English is very poorly served by our having only a single word for the many aspects of “love.”
Love is a feeling and an emotion, certainly, but also it is (or can and should be) an attitude and a commitment. The latter two can keep you going during the periods when the first two falter.
Very few people will live together for a lifetime and always feel “in love.”
Perhaps people shouldn’t be allowed to marry for the 2nd time before they are 25. Then again whose business is it how people live their lives? Right now I have a 17yr old who doesn’t see the point of attending high school Sr. year because it is such a waste of time. Part of me agrees so I am looking for alternatives just to be sure the kid has a diploma and can continue on to college if the ambition ever strikes. And I am reading they want to make it illegal for kids to stop going to school before age 18, even with parental consent. This seems like a form of incarceration to me, punish the student for not seeing the point of worn out, dated subjects. This is the last one in school and I am coming to the conclusion that schools have become an industry where they want to turn out all the same model with out consideration to the individual. Whose business is it if a kid drops out, if it is being done thoughtfully and not just as truancy? It seems when God is eliminated from everyday life, their are elites and narcissists who think it is their, hmmm, haha, “God/god given right” (<Capitalize or not capitalize?) to play god with other peoples’ lives. I believe that God wanted us to feed his sheep with the Word of God, not food. Once the Word of God is instilled in people then they can produce their own food, they can live sanely in an “evolving” world. (Evolving like land-line telephones to cellphones, that kind of evolving, not theoretical evolution such as amphibians to monkeys to humans. Hahahaha. Then again there are places in the world where I wonder if this isn’t true. Vicious lizards to humans. LOL.)
Every once in a while, you just have to take a step back, and just look in shock at how the liberals have devolved over the years. The party that thought that marriage was an unreasonable shackle upon the free love of two people is wanting it more regulated. Not only do they want to force the gays into the institution, but they want to force young (presumably only heterosexual) people out of it.
The only one who should be forced out of it should be the government itself. Man, how much could have changed if Romney had stood up and replied to the Massachusetts Supreme Court - Fine, every marriage in the state is unconstitutional and we’re no longer going to issue marriage licenses. Churches can have their ceremony back.
But I know this is just part of their master plan to extend education for all by 7 years, to give their system of indoctrination more time to work over young minds, and program away the conservative viewpoint.
The protesters of the system become the system. Wonder if our young people will have the guts soon to tell the system to take a hike.
Married at 20, 45 years later I have him almost paper-trained. :-)
Let’s see you can’t get married until you’re 25 and you HAVE to use those “free” contraceptives.
lol...
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