jmbullet
Drama maker
^Well, I think the reason why people don't get married nowadays is that their parents are divorced anyway. Most people decide to give up on their relationship when it becomes hard instead of working on it, like people did before, when divorce was legal but not really acceptable, from a moral point of view. Nowadays, most people don't think of their life as ''I'll get married, stay with the same partner for all my life and raise kids''.
Nowadays when you meet somebody, you expect their parents to be divorced, not happily married for 25+ years. Most of the new people I meet are surprised when I tell them I only have one place to call home, and that my parents are still in love after so many years.
Maybe it's a coincidence, but my friends who most believe in marriage are friends whose parents are still together. I know I want to get married someday, and so does my bf, but then again, his parents are still together, too. When your parents gave you a certain example, you tend to follow it.
Also, people make kids for themselves now, they think of a kid as some kind of awesome pet or something. And they don't want to be bothered by the kids they make, so they make sure they are rich before having kids and that they can call the babysitter anytime, so their lifestyle remains unchanged.
Nowadays when you meet somebody, you expect their parents to be divorced, not happily married for 25+ years. Most of the new people I meet are surprised when I tell them I only have one place to call home, and that my parents are still in love after so many years.
Maybe it's a coincidence, but my friends who most believe in marriage are friends whose parents are still together. I know I want to get married someday, and so does my bf, but then again, his parents are still together, too. When your parents gave you a certain example, you tend to follow it.
Also, people make kids for themselves now, they think of a kid as some kind of awesome pet or something. And they don't want to be bothered by the kids they make, so they make sure they are rich before having kids and that they can call the babysitter anytime, so their lifestyle remains unchanged.