They may LOOK happy but you have no idea what goes on behind closed doors.
I see this marriage fixation as over rated.A lot of people just aren't cut out for marriage.
And rake me over the coals for my stereotyping but way too many black women care whats ON their heads,not whats IN their heads.
These black men aren't stupid.Many of them grew up in a matriarchal society.NEVER say anything bad about moms if you value your health but in the back of their minds they see a black woman who gets too close and they back away fearing that mom's dominating precense will again reappear in the form of a wife.
I am white,grew up in a two parent home and adored both my mother and father.But it was a rocky marriage and no model for me or my brothers and sister,none of us who has ever married.
I see the social and cultural value of marriage.I just never have seen it work in the world I live in.
How are you sure you wouldn't have had most of the same problems with a single parent but with the added negatives of missing parental care, one fewer wageearner, probable poverty, and a much more unstable home envronment that are associated with single parenthood?
Both our older children have married children from broken homes. So there are a whole host of issues there.
What do you attribute the recent change in humanity that so many more people aren't cut out for marriage? Global warming?