it seems like people today just live together or are having kids without marriage or others just quit and give up and get a divorce. marriage is work true but if you love someone why just walk away is this why people don't do things in order today/? oh another thing why do people call pregnancies accidents b/c only a few ever are if someone is having unprotected sex come on it's no accident now if a contraception failed after proper use ok. why is is no one gets married and then starts a family or moves in together why have people given up on the old traditional values.
2007-12-28 06:27:46 · 11 answers · asked by ASHLEIGH P 3 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
I don't know....I'm an old-fashioned girl myself and have heard the complaints of people who don't believe in marriage...such as, "why won't he marry me?" and "he cheated on me" and blah blah blah.
Society's values have changed, for the better or worse that's not for me to judge.
2007-12-28 06:33:04 · answer #1 · answered by kiki 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have the time I might have the answer...
Society has erroded over the generations. Our parents had a tougher more meaningful life than we did and their parents life was more difficult yet. As our society ages each generation wishes to make thing easier for the next. This has turned out to be a total fiasco. All we have done is make the tedious tasks in life easier and ruined the standards that once made this country great. Do not get me wrong, I would rather live here than anywhere else in the world, however, we all have to agree that morals and standards have been in a decay for many years now. As the tasks became easier the time people had to sit and watch television increased. Over the years the balance between work and pleasure has been tilted in favor of pleasure. We have been bombarded by the media and the politicians with giberish about what is right and what is wrong. Laywers and plantiffs feeling offended have reduced morals down to nothing. People feel free to do whatever they wish or risk being offended. I am bringing this merely as an example, not a condemnation, but homosexuality is a well defined sin in the bible and 40 years ago it was known that there were these types of people but society shunned them being openly gay. Over the years we have been inundated with a barrage of propaganda telling us that this sin is not the fault of the sinner, but that god made them this way or they were born this way. We have succumbed to the media and now accept homosexuality as almost normal behavior.
Along the way marriage has been under the same microscope by those who wish to further degrade any standards in this country. The feminists have created an attitude that women do not need men (true, but isn't life better on a team of two rather than one?) and that men in and of themselves are hopeless sex crazed lunatics that cannot be trusted. More and more over the last twenty to thirty years the media began promoting single motherhood and a more promiscious life for women (One day at a time< Alice, etc..)
These shows and a large number of movies have cemented this anti marriage attitude well into our society.
Now, we have a society that would rather coddle someone's shortcomings and make excuses for their behavior. This has gotten so bad that people have come to feel that any commitment is unneccesssary and to stand and fight for a marriage is just too, hard.
We have made life so easy for people that it has gotten us to the place in our time where if it is easier to just quit then that's OK.
I fear the next generation.
Yoda out
2007-12-28 14:45:50 · answer #2 · answered by Yoda 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was just going to ask the same question! It is disgusting to see that all morals have gone down the toilette! I am in my early thirties so it is not like I am old fashioned, but what happened to fighting for your marriage or even having common sense before you get married? I think people don't even care anymore, I have heard many people say that if it doesn't work out, they can always get a divorce. Why is divorce taken so lightly in our country? It is so horrible to think that marriage is not considered sacred. I am married. Going on six years. Yes we have had our ups and downs but we sit down and communicate. Thank goodness there have been more ups than downs! People don't talk to each other anymore. Maybe that is part of the problem. They come in here and ask questions they should be asking their spouse!
2007-12-28 14:34:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anais 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion society has made that type of lifestyle ok. I think people are looking for a storybook romance and when their marriage don’t live up to that they run away. My husband and I have done things more traditionally, we dated 3 years, got married, then moved in together have been married for 3 years (been together a total of 6) and I am pregnant with our 1st child. Who was a bit unexpected because contraceptive were used and he is about to deploy so we wanted to wait, but all in all traditional. I will tell you that when we met other couples we are told often that they wished they would have dated longer, waited longer to have kids. Relationships are hard, ours is no exception but we really knew what we were getting into.
2007-12-28 14:40:02 · answer #4 · answered by Cherrygirl83 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in marriage and am getting married soon. I also feel it very important to live with my future partner before marriage to find out if we are compatable.
My question is why are most questions here about whether they should divorce or not - it shouldn't be that simple.
2007-12-28 14:59:55 · answer #5 · answered by Angela O 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I think people are scarred to get married cause the divorce rate is so high. They think, why risk it, when I can have all the things that married people have, without signing some stupid paper.
2007-12-28 14:34:22 · answer #6 · answered by x_x_x 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ashleigh P Ash, you are a very good person to be thinking the way that you do ! I do believe with all my heart that the devil knows Jesus will be returning soon so he is doing all he can to destroy the reverence and sanctity of Gods holy union !I am disabled but hopefully my Honey and I can meet and marry before the lord"s return ! God bless you !!!
2007-12-28 14:43:47 · answer #7 · answered by lonewolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know....its so very sad!! There is no such thing as "for better or worse" anymore! Its more like.....when the going gets tough the tough get going! No one sticks it out anymore.....every body quits and gives up....marriage should be one thing worth fighting for....it really is sad that most people don't feel that way anymore!!
2007-12-28 14:35:09 · answer #8 · answered by vivian2525 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, people still get married. The real question is: do people stay married anymore?
2007-12-28 15:18:38 · answer #9 · answered by kidfree 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Society is going downhill, It's the price of progress and capitalism!
2007-12-28 14:48:23 · answer #10 · answered by Lv Dr. 4U 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋