Has Marriage Gone Out of Style?

Wed now, or forever hold your peace!!


After watching the video in the article titled Whither Marriage?, I started to think whether marriage is something right or wrong. No one should be forced into a marriage and everyone should have the right in deciding whether they want to get married and have children. Marriage is a covenant between a man and a woman, and it's not meant to be broken unless there are legitimate reasons. In this generation, people have taken marriage as a joke! And it really bothers me. I guess you can say I am more of the traditional and old fashioned person, but in my opinion, marriage has always been a commitment between two people! Therefore, it requires a man AND a woman...speaking of that, I do not respect how Barbara Kay (Interviewer from the National Post) in the video is blaming women for wanting to stay single and not have children. First of all, it takes two people to get married and those people choose whether they want to have children or not! so I don't really see how this is only women's fault, men are to blame as well. Also, there's nothing wrong with getting married and not having kids. The world is being over populated anyway, so how are couples selfish in not having children?

Many women are afraid that if they get married, they might have to go through the whole heartbreaking divorce; but how will you know that you will be getting divorced? In my opinion, it's fate. You take chances and risks in life, so why not with marriage too?
Also, it should be noted, that in some religions, divorce is still only allowed when a sin is commited in the marriage or one of the spouse' passes away.

Personally, I don't think that age matters that much. A man and a woman should feel ready to settle and then decide on getting married. And if this means the couple are both over the age of 25, then there's nothing wrong with that as long as they are being responsable and waiting to see if they're right for each other to avoid divorce.
I was somewhat disappointed that the video only showed women's perspective on this issue, but then I found a video of a guy's opinion on marriage.


So to answer the big question: Does society suffer when marriage goes out of style?
Well, I believe that there will always be couples getting married and having children because that's a part of life and there will be those who would rather stay single. Personally, I don't think that marriage will go out of style!

I just thought this was a funny comic, so I thought I'd share! It just shows how technology has become such a big factor of our lives.


Work Cited:
http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/2007/09/091607_7.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqaW4nuNce4
http://www.myweddingvows.com/
http://67.119.111.9/AELDA/images/divorc2.gif
http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/tech-marriage.gif