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Can of Worms: Is marriage necessary anymore?
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Post by
Atik
I think marriage is still necessary. While your family might not necessarily be the people you would pick to live and grow up with, it and marriage, which helps create families, are equally necessary institutions.
But marriage isn't needed for a proper family. What about marriage makes it any better of a situation to raise children?
Post by
Adamsm
I think marriage is still necessary. While your family might not necessarily be the people you would pick to live and grow up with, it and marriage, which helps create families, are equally necessary institutions.
But marriage isn't needed for a proper family. What about marriage makes it any better of a situation to raise children?
Besides legitimacy?
Post by
Atik
I myself am a bastard (My parents married when I was five) and you said you were earlier I believe.
Never hurt anyone.
Post by
Adamsm
My parent's never married; and yes, to some children, legitimacy is actually important to them, to know who they are the children of.
But here's a good question for you Atik; what if you meet some nice girl, you two hit it off, and she wants to get married and won't accept just co-habitation? What do you do then? Break up with the girl?
Post by
Atik
Yes, I would.
Post by
Adamsm
That's....incredibly sad and stupid.
Post by
Atik
It's the way I believe things should be.
Post by
Atik
Sorry to DP, but this just struck me:
How does marriage offer any more of a sense of legitamency than an unmarried couple?
The father could still be someone else, married or not.
Post by
Squishalot
The marriage is hardly 'legitimate' if a partner is sleeping around.
Post by
Atik
So then how is it any safter then an unmarried couple that love eachother enough to be raising a child?
Post by
Squishalot
Why do we sign documentation to take out credit cards? A contract is formed through marriage via the vows / pledges that the husband and wife make with each other.
Post by
Atik
I refuse to get a credit card or take out a loan, personnally.
And why do we have divorce then? I know about the english king who kept divorcing his wives and all that... but why keep it in this case?
Post by
Adamsm
If a couple is unhappy, why force them to remain together if there is no way for them to reconcile?
Yes, it seems like now a days most couples just divorce rather then attempt to work out a problem.
Post by
Atik
Because they got themselves into the mess in the first place, prossibly for the sole fact they get benefits, and they should have to work it out themselves?
Post by
Adamsm
Again, what if there is no way to reconcile? Should they be forced to remain together for ever, steadily hating each other more and more till it explodes into something far worse? And I've never heard of people marrying just for the benefits, beyond those who are there for the green cards.
Post by
Atik
I know people who are both married and have kids SOLELY for the benefits. Around where I live, a lot of people at least try to do it.
And why should people have to do that? It teaches them marriage is a bad idea to begin with. And they can teach other people the same.
Post by
Adamsm
And for every marriage horror story(husband/wife goes nuts and chops up their partner), there is the storybook ending as well. It's not black and white by any stretch. You hate marriage? That's fine. But don't look down on others for wanting it.
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173035
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Post by
gnomerdon
If I can have a companion with me for the rest of my life without getting married, I would. But she probably won't settle for it.
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