Posted on 10/30/2013 8:50:52 AM PDT by Eurotwit
The Norwegian government is telling couples to go on date nights in a bid to reduce the country's 40 per cent divorce rate. As the number of married couples splitting up increases, authorities have taken inspiration from the 2010 film Date Night and are urging people to make time for each other one night a week. People aged between 40 and 44 are the most likely to break up, the Telegraph reports. Solveig Horne, the new minister for children, equality and social inclusion and herself a divorcee, is behind the push.
'My sister lives in the US and she told me that she and her husband have a weekly date night and it really works. Date night isn't really something that is done in Norway but I think it could be a good way to keep marriages together.' The Norwegian government has increased funding for state-run couples counselling service. Norway's media has so far been hostile to the proposal, saying it is proof that the ruling Populist party is drifting to the centre-right and linking it to moves by conservative groups in the US to promote date nights.
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Been lots of media trouble about denying global warming, calling the Norwegian agricultural politics for communism etc.
This minister was in the firing line for questioning a socialist initiative to read gay fairy tales to kindergardeners...
What every European country ought to be really worried about is the falling birthrate. Without babies, there is no future for these nations, and the only baby boom now is among the Muslim immigrants. Uh oh............
We’re all very comfortable thanks to advances in technology.
LOL! "We can't have spouses going on a date and having a good time together: that's CENTRE-RIGHT!"
Why not simply require marriage to be among five women and five men? What a bunch of NORholes.
Her title tells you how screwed up their system is in the first place!
Isn’t it good, Norwegian wood?
My thought too. Why on earth would anyone be offended by efforts to help people keep their marriages together.
But then there are people who consider the entire institution inherently oppressive.
I’ve always wondered about those lyrics....
Apparantly about a brand of marihuana.
If I say women’s lib has something to do with it?
What do you say? :P
Or is it more like the old Rodney Dangerfield joke:
The secret to a long marriage is to go out to eat on a regular basis; She goes on Tuesdays and I go on Thursdays.
The institution of marriage is only oppressive among heterosexual couples.
These liberals tell us we must have homosexual marriage. Homosexual marriage is an institution of nirvana. Traditional marriage is the institution of oppression.
We have to be liberal and understand the liberal take on things.
A lot of things go into it though.
Economics and culture.
Compare divorce rates between Massachusets and Missisippi.
Hard nut to crack it is.
I blame Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant :P
Ask a Norwegian: you’re the ones with a Department of Children, Equality, and Social Inclusion.
You or Rodney sound like my dad :P
If you want useful numbers about divorce, you have to start with marriage rates. Then it helps if you can determine how many people are repeat-divorcers, so as not to overestimate the number of families affected.
However, I don’t know why anyone but a numbers-wonk would really care. Governments do not consider stable marriage to have any public value, so keeping track of it is just another way to employ a sociology grad who would otherwise be waiting tables.
Well said.
I think divorce is an important right, and I do not blame women’s lib alone.
It is the whole self gratification culture. Little honour and little self sacrifice left.
That goes for both sexes. It wasn’t only women’s lib. It was the whole movement to liberate ourselves from the old values.
What did CS Lewis say? I paraphrase: We laugh at honour, yet are surprised to find traitors in our midst.
I just asked a sort of provocative question to hear your views :)
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