I have a question about marriage.

[orange]

honestly, the breakdown of the Male Dominated household. Equality in the sexes brings this kind of thing about. When women can start saying "No, I won't sit here and take this from him" instead of just simply going along with whatever's wrong with the marriage, more divorces will occur.

I don't think it has to do with more infidelity, more abuse, or more problems linked to money...it's just that now women have a say too.

For that, I give a big thumbs up However, people should be waiting until they are ABSOLUTELY certain they can be with someone before being married. Love alone won't do it, you have to be able to live, coexist, and function with that person. When times are tough, can you look to that person for strength and be strong for that person? If not, don't get married.

[Zkribbler]

It's a combination of the things set out above.

It's a breakdown of the traditional relationship, where the man bropught home the bacon and the woman cooked it. Now married couples are less like a team and more like an equal partnership. Although I think, on the whole that's a good thing, one of the nasty side effects a lessening of mutual need and ergo divorce.

A lessening of the stigma of divorce.

A demand for instant gratification. "If my marriage doesn't make me happy today, I'm outta here."

[Jon Miller]

Re: I have a question about marriage.

Originally posted by MrFun
I guess I'm old-fashioned in that I value monogamous, stable relationships among heterosexuals and homosexuals.

Jon Miller

[Dis]

I'm going to take a lot of heat for this.

But I feel children raised by single parents are a main reason for high divorce rates.

Now this isn't true in all cases of course. I'm sure plenty of people who grew up in a healthy family have gotten a divorce. My mother is one of those. But alcoholism was a factor there.

So I say single parents combined with less of a stigma of getting a divorce.

[Inverse Icarus]

the womens right's movement is directly correlated with a rise in the divorce rate.

the women of today are more educated and less dependent on their husbands. back in the day wives put up with abusive / idiotic husbands. now they are empowered and they use said powers.

more power to them.

[Dis]

I don't believe that Uber.

Women are still married to abusive /idiotic husbands.

The women who are getting divorce aren't divorcing abusers. They are divorcing average joes. The abuser keep on abusing. In fact the problem is sadly worse today than it was before. although that may be because it was unreported before.

[MRT144]

i think its also the raising of our society's standards of what a marrige should be. my grandparents settled for each other and i dont think a lot of women want to do that today.

[Dis]

or men.

Not all women are to blame now. Just most of them

[Asher]

Maybe people are just smarter than they used to be.

[Dis]

we know that isn't true

[Asher]

I disagree.

[Dis]

I disagree with your disagree

[Asher]

I agree.

[MRT144]

or they want something out a romance novel

[Skanky Burns]

Perhaps not everyone is suited to being with one person for the rest of their life?

the womens right's movement is directly correlated with a rise in the divorce rate.

the women of today are more educated and less dependent on their husbands. back in the day wives put up with abusive / idiotic husbands. now they are empowered and they use said powers.

more power to them.