Is the concept of MARRIAGE DEAD?

Question

Now couples are living together move.
People are willing to have Baby mamas and Baby daddy’s instead of marring their child's mother or father.
Seems men would rather have many women instead of making it work with one.
In my grandparents day making a relationship work into marriage was everything now its I don't even know.
The funny part is that the only parts of society wanting marriage are the Gays and Lesbians..
What do you think, Is Marriage dead?

Answer 1

No, but a part of me thinks it should be...

60 percent of men and 40 percent of women will have an affair during the life of a marraige. Over 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. Plus, you're gonna base all of your hopes, trust, dreams, aspirations on one person? Please.

Personally, I'm happily married. But I know I'm not going down the aisle again should (God forbid) something happen to my wife.

Answer 2

I hope not. We are turning everything all upside down these days. What used to be good is now bad and what used to be bad is now good. While it seems that your observation may very well be correct, it is a very sad commentary on our society.

I think it is the breakdown in the family unit that causing such havoc in our society. I think all the kids attacking their schools. All the kids in gangs. All the negatives in our society can be directly linked to the breakdown of the traditional family unit. The one where the father goes to work and makes a living for his family and the mother stays at home to raise the kids. The one where the mom and dad love each other and love the kids. The one where mom and dad make it work for the kids' sake.

Answer 3

I definitly see what you're saying. I often times feel like my husband and I are stuck in 1950. We are happily married, he works, and I stay home with the kids.

We have up's and down's, but all in all, we are extremely happy to be married. I love being a woman, a Wife, and a Mother.

I think the feminist movement had a lot to do with women "needing more (stuff)" to be "successful". Society tells us that we "could be out helping to support the family" (instead of staying home watching soaps). I say...blah! My husband loves being our hero and supporting us and I love nurturing and taking care of our family and home.

Excluding marriage from the norm is certainly the EASY WAY OUT, but I don't think that route is for me!

Answer 4

There are species- yes, humans are animals- that will change mating behavior based on the economics of the area and time.
When there is plenty, and no matter what you say, in America, there is plenty, then the men dally around and sow their seed and are relatively sure that the kids will make it past age two. This is the critical age past which 90+% of all humans still live- before vaccines and health care and all, people could expect to lose up to 70% of their offspring, usually 40% in average economic times I think was the number.
Anyway, these species that will mate like crazy in good times, will suddenly become monogamous in times of hardship, famine, drought, etc.
There is no hope to keep 90% of babies alive in such economic despair, so the animals will team up, have less offspring, but be sure to rear them together and keep them around.
So, let's see. We have all kinds of vaccines, we have well-baby care, we have special sleep positions to prevent SIDS, and we have welfare on top of that. Who needs to stick around anymore?
Reproductive biology cares nothing for the quality of life once the child reaches the critical age; it only cares that the organism lives to breed again.
Mating patterns reflect that.
Oh, and "gays"? I seriously have come to believe my own hypothesis that homosexuality is most accepted in times when the society is large enought that it can sustain itself without pressuring its members into creating more soldiers. For instance, when the Jews were in exile, they needed all the people they could muster to be able to fight off their enemies, kick out the Canaanites or whoever was in the land of milk and honey, and continue to write the Great Book. If they permitted homosexuality, there might have been less gays forced to pretend, forced to reproduce, and therefore less soldiers to promote the health of the culture.
We have plenty of people now! We don't need more!
So marriage is not about child-rearing anymore. Marriage is about a lust that is as spiritual as it is physical. And we continue to believe in its power to transform us, and our lives.
And to make us believe we are someone, especially when your name is Ms. something and you substitute teach. You automatically become a Mrs., if the kids like you, respect, or don't even know you. Anyway, marriage is still status, marriage is still hope, marriage is still a way to say, well, whatever happens, I want as of right now to spend my life with you.

Answer 5

I got married at the wee age of 17 and 5 years later I'm still married. I think for the most part marriage is dead, but for some it is not.

Answer 6

I believe so. I flew all the way to Dallas last year for a friend's wedding. They're divorced now. People get married and split up at the drop of a hat. They don't even try to make it work anymore. The only reason that gays want to get married is because they can't legally. They'll keep whining about it until a liberal president grants them the right and then they'll do the same thing.

Answer 7

You're completely messed up.

There are lots of people wishing to get married, and doing so. Not just gays and lesbians.

There are still arranged marriages in many cultures. There are marriages, civil and religious; Pagan, Christian, Agnostic and Athesit.

Just because part of culture abandons marriage, doesn't mean it's gone everywhere.

Answer 8

not dead, but definately dieing. symptom of our instant gratification society. it is too easy to give up durring rocky times. people move in because they are basically just saving paperwork down the road. the gay and lesbian push for the title is also an indication that the institution of marriage has completely lost it's religious basis in our society.

Answer 9

Marriage was a very important part of YHVH's plan to show people about Himself. Because of this, it has been a major target of Satan, and more recently the U.S. Government. Yes, it is about dead.

Answer 10

I hope not, I am paying for the wedding!