The institution of marriage is in trouble. It has been in decline for decades. Over the last 50 years, the marriage rate in the US has dropped by nearly 60%. Can marriage be saved, or should we just let it go?
In my opinion women are the common denominator in the failure of marriage. Half of marriages end in divorce and women file for divorce in the vast majority of cases. The legal system obviously favors women and men get screwed in divorce court and child custody settements. Women tend to take full advantage of that because divorce benefits women and harms men. But it also harms children and the adults they become, and children from broken homes are far more likely to get divorced themselves. It's a viscious cycle.
Single motherhood has become the well accepted norm. Nearly half of children are born out of wedlock, and single mothers beget more single mothers. It's another viscious cycle.
Marriage does not offer men as many benefits as it used to, and casual sex is the norm today, so there is little motivation for men to get married anymore.
In my opinion the failure of marriage will be the downfall of western cultures. How can this be addressed? Or are we doomed to that fate no matter what we do?
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I think marriage is really important to poeple and to society. It's sad what is happening to marriage. But I don't think it's all women's fault. Men definitely share some of the blame. Lot's of marriages happen because the man cheated or abused his wife. Not all, of course.
But yeah I do agree women don't seem to have as much of a sense of committment anymore and turn todivorce to easilly rather than trying to improve things in their reationship. And divorce does tend to hurt men more than women, so that's a reason why more women than men file for divorce. That's unfair and i think the legal system needs to be reformed.
And people just need to be better people.
People need to start taking marriage seriously. It’s not a game. That’s the biggest problem. As I once heard someone say, “marriage is for adults.” In other words, it takes two mature adults to keep a marriage going.