Marriage is on the
decline and so is Divorce, by Martin Armstrong, 9/30/18.
The big hoopla is that
the divorce rate has declined among Millennials. University of Maryland
professor Philip Cohen found that from 2008 to 2016, the U.S. divorce rate
dropped by 18%. Around the globe, the number of unmarried women has been rising.
The numbers seem to
point to women and men are not simply postponing marriage, but forgoing it
altogether. Indeed, in the USA, the trend is moving to just live together. Many
are saying it is just cheap to live that way these days.
Among women in their
late 30s or early 40s, 29% are unmarried in Denmark. In Italy where the family
has been more of a tradition, still, 18% remain unmarried in the same group.
Cross over the Mediterranean to Lebanon and the number is 22% and move to Libya
and it jumps to 32%. In the United States, one in six women remains unmarried
in her early forties or almost 17% which is a record high with the same level
in Japan.
What is happening is
the age difference is rising to return more to the historical norm. Boys just
mature slower than girls and as the younger girls give up on the same age boys,
the marriages are lasting longer as they did before Hollywood turned lust into
love at first sight. Curious to watch how the trends are changing back to
historical norms.
Prior to the
Industrial Revolution and socialism, the boy first had to get the house, farm,
and the chickens and then approach a girl’s father. There was none of this
stuff; oh we just love each other and that’s enough.
Socialism seems to
have enabled the age gap to collapse on the assumption that the state was there
so you did not have to prove you could support a family in advance. Today under
socialism, you can marry a homeless person and the state will provide the
welfare. It depends upon your self-esteem and ambition in life.
Some birds seem to practice the same trend. The male has to build a nest and make it look attractive to attract a female. Perhaps that is just the way nature intended which is why girls become women before boys become men.
Comments
Socialism and Moral
Relativism go hand and hand. The decline in traditional marriage is the result
of a “no confidence vote” by the younger generation in value of marriage vows
and family traditions.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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