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Thanks to the break down of our moral character among other things.
Marriage has become a joke because of quickie marriages and divorces etc. After the government got involved it spelled the end.
If you look at other country's where it is still a religious institution, it is very different.
Of course you are also trying to deny the success of thousands of years for the last 50 or so in the industrialized secular world.
The extended family has always been superior to the nuclear family, simply because the nuclear family breaks apart half the time. The nuclear family can only exist because the government is involved and has provided the incentives of marriage. Anywhere that marriage is purely a religious institution, people live in extended families, not nuclear families. Nuclear families are artificial and are supported by the government.
Think about it. For countless millennium, a person's parents would look after them until they reached adulthood, then they would help look after the grand kids, then as they got old, their children and grandchildren would look after them. That was the successful model. And what did we replace it with? Social Security and nursing homes!
The reality is that the nuclear family is a product of the industrial revolution. People moved away from their family farms into smaller units that were easier to support with factory work. Marriage was incentized by the government to increase production by supporting this family structure.
Again we have gay singles with children and step children. That means little in the context of this discussion.
You are failing to acknowledge that nuclear families tend to have a half life. They fall apart often and reconfigure into less optimal situations. This may result from anything from a death in the family to a financial necessity. It may have absolutely nothing to do with the moral character of the individuals involved.
As for the rest, it's a shame we have in the last 50 or so years degraded and made marriage into a joke.
Marriage has decayed because we are no longer in the industrial era. We are in the information age and marriage is going to have to change, just like it has several time before, in order to be beneficial again.
You have got to be kidding?
You are clearly ignorant of the demographics and history of marriage. I'm sorry, but the facts are a lot more relevant than your opinoin and assumptions on the issue. It would do you good to educate yourself more on this before you jump in.