Marriage

 

Marriage in today’s society is not respected like it once was. In my opinion in the 1970’s Americans wouldn’t have even considered temporary marriage. What that say’s to me is that society today isn’t taking marriage seriously. Marriage today is not alive and strong. I think with the couples that have been married for 30+ years, but with the younger newlywed couples no. monogamy is not every couple’s first priority. Social media and the internet are so popular; it is much easier now to find couples than in the early 20^th century. So one can get married and still cheat on their spouse by internet. Internet and social median play a huge part in couples divorcing. My parents fall under the 50 percent of Americans who divorced. With that being said, that only made me not want to just marry anyone. My parents had 3 children together and after about 10 years of marriage they divorced. Since then both of my parents remarried and have been with the same spouse since they divorced. Both of my parents are currently happily married, so sometimes couples need more than one chance. I do not think my parents were ready to marry each other; they were young and needed more time. To prevent high divorce numbers, I don’t think couples should marry so early. I also think having children at a young age forces couples to marry before they are ready causing future divorce.

Couples should take their time before jumping into having children and getting married. Education is always the first priority, if couples are financially stable, healthy and know everything about each other; marriages have a stronger opportunity to thrive. When a couple moves in too soon, or doesn’t know enough about a person before they make the commitment to have children a relationship is more likely to fall apart. Americans today have an opportunity to decrease the divorce rate, but we need to give ourselves a chance and not set marriages up for failure.