With fifty percent of marriages ending in divorce, what are the family values some people keep trying to...?

Question

defend? Or is the divorce rate just a minor detail of our society?

Answer 1

Good question. After 30 years of trying to keep my family together it just isn't gonna happen. I've suffered for 30 years and I'm finally throwing in the towel. I've tried to teach my kids to be there for each other and then they met their significant others and now nobody speaks to anybody. It's insane. I dont think there are any values anymore. I think respect should be at the top of the list. But there isn't any of that around anymore either. It's really a shame anymore. How do you teach kids right from wrong when most adults don't even know how to act themselves. They try to make children super perfect and then they are worse then the kids. Too much double standards. I'm all for having a blast when doing things but if the adults can laugh and kid around why can't the kids? Doesn't make sense. Need to stick with do unto others as you would have them do to you. An eye for an eye. Both of them keeps most in line. There is control and at the same time fear. It works.

Answer 2

People marry because they want to do. Five years later, one or the other or both decide marriage is not the best way to live after all. Perhaps the laws need to be changed anyway. Perhaps people should simply "commit" for a certain length of time, and then if it doesn't work out,they can simply part ways without looking back. Perhaps gays should be allowed to marry, perhaps they are the real examples of what marriage should be about. Perhaps the "commitment" issue be left to people (male and female) who simply THINK they want to marry, but who later learn it was wrong for them..

Answer 3

When people care more about their own gratification, than taking care of their responsibilities, when people would rather get high, than go to work, when people choose to abuse the ones they love, divorce is an excellent family value.

Divorce is a necessary evil in our "anything goes" culture. I don't know if it is valid to say one party has the corner on divorce. I do know that as long as we continue to put our own wants ahead of our children's needs, it isn't going to get any better.

Answer 4

Excuse me this is Sunday. Let's keep those NeoCon moral issues in the closet please.

Divorce is a RedsState method of transition from Family to how to catch a pedophile on NBC.

Go big Red Go

Answer 5

It is a minor detail of our society. Of course, divorce was a big deal fifty years ago. It is something you certainly didn't talk about in public, much less do in your personal life. We see how those values have changed over the course of a few decades. Family values are merely a smoke screen. It plays to those people who have simply tolerated each other for years.

Answer 6

Holy S***! How can you make up a fact that most divorces are liberals. Do the facts and truth mean nothing? That's like saying all conservatives have no intelligence. Oh wait...

Answer 7

Ah that 50% number has been proven false.
Most marriages do last.
The 50% number came from a study where they look at the number of marriage and number of divorces and where about the same number.
However, they never look at who got married and divorce.
Those who got divorce had been married a couple of times.

Answer 8

The divorce rate is a major problem. I think the hardest thing is understanding why the rate is so high, and how we can some how curb it

Speaker outta touch said it well

Answer 9

Well, it all comes down to something that Democrats are so quick to defend...the right to choose.

For example...many people get married young without thinking about the consequences and not being ready. They then divorce.

Some people want to fornicate and have no responsibility for anything that might come along with that.

Answer 10

Well, just because half the couples (or at least half of that group) are too immature to sustain a long term relationship, that doesn't negate the importance of "values."