Why? The purpose of marriage has changed as our society has changed. We no longer have to harness the wives and children to the plow to get in the crop any more. Nor do we need to have 15 or 20 kids to ensure that enough of them survive into adulthood in order to take care of us when we're too old to haul the plow etc.
As for altering the divorce rate, I think that we're going about it the wrong way. currently divorces are difficult to obtain, while marriages are very easy (in some places there are drive through wedding chapels). We ought to do the opposite, make divorce very easy and marriage very difficult to obtain. That way those people who are very serious about marriage and are willing to make the real commitment will still be married while those who are not will not tie the knot. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am I the only one who thinks those statistics are scary? > > Seriously though I don't think we can blame our politicians for the divorce > rate. That's a problem with our society in general. The only thing the > politicians could do to affect it would be to make divorces harder to get. > Frankly that would be a counter productive approach to the problem. You might > see a decrease in the divorce rate, but you wouldn't see the more important > (in my opinion) rise in happy marriages to go with it. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318996 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
