Which is the greatest threat to the institution of marriage?

Question

Which is the greatest threat to the institution of marriage: {A} the 49% Divorce Rate or {B} Same-Sex Marriage? (Please explain why.)

Reference: http://www.divorcemag.com/statistics/statsWorld.shtml

Answer 1

The divorce rate by far. If you're talking about a threat, you're implying that it poses a danger to the basis upon which marriage is built. Gay marriage entails all the things that a straight marraige does; cooperation, sacrifice, and love. A rising divorce rate implies that more and more people aren't taking marriage seriously. Divorce is beginning to be more common because people see it as a "get out of jail free" card. With less serious commitment people will begin to feel that marriage is no longer special.

Answer 2

The divorce rate is not a threat; it's a statistic. Same-sex marriage is a red herring -- a projection for a problem that people don't know how to solve. The greatest threat to marriage is the following: rigidity, unrealistic expectations, lack of communication, and pursuing one-sided goals.

Answer 3

Neither is a threat to anything.

Our values as a society are the greatest threat to the institution of marriage. We no longer value hard work, honesty and fair play. Self indulgence is all that is important and everyone wants to be a gangsta, a stable family life doesn't fit in to that life style.

No two people getting married has any effect whatsoever on any two other people. I don't think two people getting divorced has any effect of any two other people either.

Answer 4

Given multiple choice: (A).

Society seems to have placed a low-value on the sancitity of marriage. Commitment has no basis in love these days but it's based on feeling. Love is faithful in spite of feelings and obstacles. So people fall in and out of love and do whatever pleases them.

I'd say also that a big threat to marriage is that it is easy to think like the world- marriage is something you try and if it works it doesn't if not- will try again (after all 1/2 of marraiges end in divorce). If people understood their roles as men and women i think they would be able to work out some of the issues that arise in a marriage that people are so unwilling to deal with these days...

Answer 5

Divorce will always be a treat to marriage. It is easier to get divorced then it is to get married. And you can't have a marriage if you get divorced.

As for same-sex marriages, these people will be together married or not. So I don't think it effect the marriage between heterosexuals.

I am against same-sex marriages, but like I said they will be together regardless. Unless being gay becomes a crime. Then I think that we would just have jails full of gay people.

Answer 6

B as a threat doesn't make sense. More people joining an institution only makes it larger.

In its purest form, it's all about the math. A = less, B = more
So A would be the greater threat.

Answer 7

Divorce of course.
heh, imagine the hypocricy of a christian saying that Same-sex marriage threatens "traditional marriage" when the odds are that they themselves have been divorced at least once...

Answer 8

When you marry someone that dont have the same believes as you. Divorce because most people are living double life and they cannot tell their parterns until they may get caught .

Answer 9

I guess I just don't see marriage going away anytime soon. But why concern yourself with the relationships of others anyway?

Answer 10

Niether, the threat is trying to ban love.