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The Ghost of RubangB said:
An increasing divorce rate is a threat to family values, which are the cornerstone of America. If we don't have married couples raising children (our future) in nuclear families, we can't have strong communities, churches, cities, or states. The increase in the divorce rate is attributed to the fact that today women can get divorces just as easily as men, and it turns out that there were a lot of shitty marriages out there that women have wanted out of for a long time. It used to be the case that men could opt out of marriage and women couldn't. That was unfair, but many people ignore that and think that the increasing divorce rate isn't a sign of women gaining freedom, but a sign of some other vague societal evil that makes people not love each other the way they used to. This way you can take a good thing (women gaining one single equal right) and turn it into an attack on atheists, homosexuals, feminists, liberals, or whomever else, and call it supporting marriage, or traditional values, or traditional family values, or whatever. The enemy in this argument can be replaced constantly, and you're always the good guy, because you care about families. Does that make more sense? I don't mind if you disagree, but I just wanted to state my case more clearly and seriously. I just think that the concept is pretty lulzy and required a lulzy response. But there's my serious take on it.
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"Family Values" can often be included in "Traditional Values" but I don't think that people are necessarily refering to "Family Values" when they talk about "Traditional Values" ... An example of this distinction is that a value like 'Respect your Elders' is a very traditional value that is not (necessarily) a family value.
On the topic of divorce, in Canada it really wasn't that long ago when you needed an act of parliament to get a divorce and there has never (really) been a disproportionate ability for women or men to get a divorce. I think my Grandfather said it best when he explained why the divorce rate was so high today when he said "People today think that a wedding is a marriage, and they go through the ceremony whitout any understanding of why they're doing it."
