Is marriage relevant today

Answer 1

marriage is only necessary if you feel the need to make the commitment, the divorce rate is higher then ever so....Id say no but you will find people who feel different about this!

Answer 2

Marriage is an important social contract as in any other business arrangement. It is also expected to provide the emotional and cultural stability which is a very important aspect in the development of children into well-mannered adults. All of which is true, but turning it into a political football reduces the seriousness in which it is held.

Answer 3

Should We Live Together?
What Young Adults Need to Know about Cohabitation before Marriage
David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Rutgers University Study
Cohabiting couples breakup three times more than married couples. Cohabiting couples that later marry have a 46% higher rate of divorce than those who did not cohabit prior to marriage.

Benefits of Marriage

According to Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council, the current U.S. marriage rate is the lowest it has ever been, men and women are delaying first marriages, the divorce rate has doubled since 1960, and the number of cohabiting couples has increased by more than a factor of 10.

Yet Maher's research shows that marriage benefits children through complementary parental roles, in which children develop their conscience and their self-worth and their capacity for intimacy and empathy through their emotional bond with their mothers, while involved fathers contribute to their emotional health, academic achievement, and higher job status as adults.

Children with married parents are less likely to engage in risky behavior such as premarital sex, substance abuse, delinquency and suicide. They learn a template for future marriage, and according to Judith Wallerstein, are "reasonably happy" even in a home with an unhappy marriage. They suffer less abuse and neglect, have better health, enjoy more economic security, and achieve higher academic scores.

Marriage benefits adults, who have better health than the unmarried, enjoy longer life spans, are less prone to suicide, and enjoy higher incomes. Marriage is the safest relationship for women, while cohabiting couples report rates of physical aggression that are three times higher than those reported by married couples.

And marriage benefits society through fewer abortions, safer homes, safer communities, less premarital sex (due to parental influence), less poverty and more wealth, more marriage and less divorce, and less government and lower taxes as fewer welfare programs are needed or used by those in strong marriages. Teen childbearing alone costs U.S. taxpayers about $7 billion per year for welfare, incarceration, and foster care costs.

Answer 4

See, the tradition of marriage has been decided by our ancestors. Like we never question why we eat a particular fruit and not the others we term wild, coz we know that someone has tested and then finally reached to a conclusion why we eat that fruit... Similarly the concept of marriage is just to bring a stability in the minds of people.

Marriage is a reason why we can stick to our grounds and be able to give ourselves a chance to stability. Otherwise it is very likely we move to a next relationship as soon as we get the tiniest hint of dissatisfaction and exhaust the relationship and do the same with every relation.

So my suggestion is that instead of questioning about the existence of marriage try to discover the good that it can do...

Till you try to prove that it is unimportant you will have to write a book about what the pros and cons are if you don't marry in a society where the others do...

Answer 5

If friendship & sex is important, it is better to get married.