Marriage

            Now a day rich and famous actors and actresses have a big impact on marriages. Just like what Aja Gabel example on his essay, The Marriage Crisis.

            People today are more likely less inclined on getting married than the previous generations. There are a lot of factors come into play when one is considering marriage in our generation.

            First, women in the workforce; back then women would just do the house hold chores, they are the one who is assigned for taking care of the children, but now a lot of them are having a good job and sometimes they fail to be a mother and wife. I agree to Robert Emery that you need love in marriage. You have to give what your partners need, not only your needs. Another example on this is the Birth Control which gives women control on planning their future. Of course if you prioritize your work than your future family, more likely you will least think of getting married.

Second, emotional expectations for partnership; loyalty, betrayal, and happiness are some examples that could trigger one person’s views of point in marriage. Being loyal to each other can make the relationship stronger and if it is stronger, you will be happier with each other that can sometimes leads to marriage. But if you and your partner have already issues about betrayal, you can’t just stand it and it will lead to divorce.

And lastly, Marriage’s benefits or costs to individuals and families; the benefits that government can give to you and your partner can also be a reason why someone would like to be married. Just like what John and Bryan said, they want options in case something would happen to either of them. But sometimes if you and your partner already have your own family, if you and your partner not really happy with each other, you will just end up losing your family.

I believe that marriage is still strong in America. Why? Because there are still people getting married even though it is sometimes end up in a bad way. This means there still people who hope that their love for each other could conquer all their struggles in marriage. That love would be still winning over all the problems that they would face in the future.

I think Natalie Rivera’s ideas concerning temporary marriages are a good idea. Because I believe that you only have to marry one person. And if you give someone the ability to try and leave the marriage it just does not make sense at all. And I think you want to marry someone because you believe and you hope that you two would last. Not because you just want to try, or you want to experience what marriage is like. In my opinion you cannot make these temporary marriages because you are just wasting your time in building your own family, being married, and being remarried again when in fact you could have just live your own life with a happy family that last.