| WessleWoggle said:
Wtf does that mean? How does that make sense?
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If you went back a couple of generations in time (and then through most cultures throughout history), the average person would see a wedding as being a "Celebration of Love" and marriage without the intention of having children as being very odd ways to look at it ... after all, many cultures fully accepted that people would get married for status or wealth (or what not) and have a romantic relationship on the side in the form of a mistress.
In a very short period of time, due to (way) too much bombardment that love preluded marriage has distorted its meaning and people don't fully understand what the purpose of the relationship really is ... Its not that uncommon to hear about people getting divorced because they "Fell out of Love" while I'm certain that most people in my great grandparents generation would reply to that "So? you can fall in and out of love several times durring a marriage, and the relationship gets stronger from battling through the hard times"
If people completely disassociate marriage with children it is plausable that you would see a greater number of single parrents who have no relationship to the resources of their "partners" extended family ... While these resources may seem small, over the lifetime of a child the financial, moral, emotional and networking support really adds up and gives the child a huge advantage.
