A stable marriage is the very foundation of societal harmony?

Question

Is such a marriage an old custom or is it a practice that should be encouraged for a harmonious society? Justify your stance.

Answer 1

I believe so. Children need a stable background where the parents are free to concentrate on their upbringing, rather than on worrying about new partners, etc.
Children should always come first and kids need a stable emotional and financial background. I believe strongly that if they don't get it, they are being short-changed.
Unfortunately the world is full of immature idiots who prefer to put their own "needs" first and treat their children as though they are appendages.
A stable and happy marriage brings with it security, family and more happiness. As for those who think that "shacking up" is an alternative - why be afraid of a public commitment?

Answer 2

Marraige is an old custom and what came of it was social status once .. Its not that way anymore .. Today the affairs have come out of the closet and yes its called shacking up. You don't have to be married to be happy socially although it tends to help you live a much more moral life. People r weak. There will always be those that do not hold the rules of marriage sacred therefore the pain they will cause should keep them single. Marirage is a union between a man and a woman and when 1 party wants to bring others into that bubble the bubble burst. Im not saying you can't have your own lives but the life you choose to live w/ the spouse should be shared in all areas. You can have your own friends but they must respect your marriage. It always helps when they r also your spouses friends. As you grow old together you will find the friends you have together will accept your trust to each other and they will be w/ you both through thick & thin... That in itself is social harmony. W e may not particularly like our spouses friends & vice vs/but we accept they r friends & we try to. If the friendship holds the stand w/ time eventually the other spouse will see the good the other spouse sees. I don't encourage marriage unless there is a true shadow holding the love between two people for a lifetime. Even sometimes that fools us in the end...... I think 2 people really do need to be crazy about each other for it to work............

Answer 3

I'll try to answer this question in two ways.

First, I'll use the account of Adam and Eve in Genesis as a pretext. They were commanded to be fruitful and multiply.
In other words, be prosperous and have children to fill the Earth with society so to speak. Nowadays, I like to say, "Get rich and make babies!" The point is that the marriage between Adam and Eve was the first family. Family starts with marriage between a man and a woman. Society grows from this fundamental arrangement. It stands to reason that healthy marriages more likely than not, will lead to healthy societies.

Secondly, what do we have today? We have a society reeling with confusion about what marriage is. Life, at it's very essence, is about replication. Adam and Eve have a far greator chance to replicate than Adam and Steve, or Amanda and Eve. This speaks to confusion about the nature of sex in society. Another disturbing trend, in my opinion, is the subjugation of the male role in the family to an inferior status below women and children. We are still replicating but look at the results. Since I'm short on time, and its getting late, I'll offer as proof of the rampant confusion (Baby's Momma drama, and Your are not the father palaver) caused by the abdication of the man in the basic family unit, any random episode of The Jerry Springer Show, Maury Pauvich, Judge Judy or any of the court shows, and last but not least, Oprah Winfrey. I don't know why I mentioned Oprah...I guess I just wanted to take a shot at her.

What's the solution? Eat Meat!

Earf!

Answer 4

I believe that it should be encouraged. I mean the reason for marriage is to make life stable by ensuring that one man gets only one woman. This leads to a more stable environment because let's face it, without marriage there would be no law concerning relationships and chaos would ensue. Men would get for themselves the women of others. There would be no proper division of responsibility when it comes to raising kids. Let's face it, without marriage, the idea of short-term relationships, which is common among younger people right now, would be dominant, and to my experience short-term relationships may be full of passion but it usually lead to emotional destruction and psychological wounds.

Answer 5

You may have been right in your assumption maybe 20 years ago, but these days, things have gone too far to think if everyone was happily married things would be ok.

There is a society breakdown happening and its largely due to bad parenting, babies having babies and then trying to raise those babies only for history to repeat itself all over again.

I would say it will take longer to fix the breakdowns in society than it did to break them.

Marriage is not always a good thing for children. What if one of the parents was abusive? Then it would be better for that couple to be apart.

Unfortunately life is not black and white, its made up of shades of grey.

Answer 6

The practice of 'stable marriage' won't be commonplace as long as it's so easy to get a divorce.

Answer 7

a stable mind is the foundation of societal hatrmony?