POLL – Marriage:  a thing of the past?

A new study by the Pew Research Center and Time Magazine says that marriage is becoming obsolete.

When asked what constitutes a family, the vast majority of Americans agree that a married couple, with or without children, fits that description.  But four of five surveyed pointed also to an unmarried, opposite-sex couple with children or a single parent.  Three of five people said a same-sex couple with children was a family.

I have to say I’m a little disappointed with the majority of the comments on here. When did everyone become so cynical. I just got married this summer and I did it because I loved this woman to death and never wanted to be with out her. “…tremendous losses of money and property after a divorce make marriage less attractive.” That’s the last reason I married my wife. If one day she decided to leave me and wanted half of our stuff I’d gladly pay, because all I want is her happiness and I know she feels the same way. Should people get married because a child is brought into the equation, not necessarily but maybe you should decide if that person is worth spending the rest of you life with before you hop in the sack. Should gays be afforded the right to marry? Absolutely, if to people love each other and want to be together physically, legally, spiritually, who am I to say no. I, in large part blame our consumerism for many of the moral declines in this country. We can have any number of features on our cars, upgrade the choices on our fast food meals and add as many bells and whistles to all of life’s choices as we want. Eventually the permeated its way into our personal lives. Now when we’re “bored” with our family and want an “upgrade” we feel it’s our right to do so because you should “have it your way.” Well sorry, but somethings in life are bigger than your whiny ass little ego so please for all our sake’s lets start to put real consideration to the major choices we make in life and be more positive because it’s the negativity and selfish choices we’ve ALL been making that have put us where we are…we have no one to blame but ourselves. Thank you and have a wonderful day!

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