Most people nowadays defer marriage until they can afford the wedding. First they have a baby, then they go on a honeymoon and then, when they’ve saved enough, exchange “vows.”
Ironic...
Gay couples vigorously demand their right to marry at the same moment straight couples are voluntarily walking away from it.
Marriage is when the last straw is broken and you find there is yet another straw.
Wonder how much of the 49% are couples living “in sin” and how many are singles alone (and of those how many are parents and how many are not). I understand there’s been a surge of no-kid singlehood.
Yet another reason to suspect state-recognized marriage belongs to a bygone era, for better or for worse.
Government has given the green light years ago to support protect and encourage single parent households driving a wedge and a false notion that young people can make a go of this and survive without a partner. Personal responsibility is the problem
That's enough to stop marriages IMO.
Breakdown of education/income/welfare/ethnic levels would have been interesting, and I suspect informative, data. The article addresses mainly people who are educated and work. If the government will pay for your children no need to go through a ceremony, it may cramp the stud’s style.
However, if the statistical picture were modified to account for these groups:
1. Wanting to be married and single.
2. Those in (cough) relationships headed for marriage. I'd bet half of the households with a ‘hook-up arrangement would qualify here.
2. In the state of engagement.
3. Divorced and open to re-marriage.
4. Widows and widowers.
I think the overall popularity of marriage would buoy up to something in the 75-80%+ range as a goal or desirable state. Of course, that isn't the intent here. Let's just show the folks at home how outmoded marriage is and let's just all shack up with him/her/it/them/fruit/vegetables/machines/etc.
It’s all planned:
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
The single worst thing one can do is marry poorly.
Personally, I'd love to be married, but...the price I'd pay for getting it wrong and then continue to pay and pay for the rest of my life, is enough to keep me single and looking.
I seek a woman who, as Don DeLillo wrote, lacks "the guile for conspiracies of the body."
And, maybe a good divorce lawyer just in case...
A question for all you old-timers out here...
I’ve been married for going on 25 years, and have never met so many people who keep asking me “what our secret is.”
Is this only because I’m an old-timer now too?
/the secret: It’s called a MARRIAGE VOW, Gingrich supporters!
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Marriage sounds great....
Not.