Woman is going to marry herself

[Baalzamon]

Teo said:

KBG29 said:

Got to love it. Marriage is so meaningless. People of every orientation have totally blown the meaning. Marriage is like a possession in the world today. You like it, you obtain it, and when it breaks down, throw it out and get a new one. All these people that have been married 7 times, and never for more then 4 years at a time, just blow my mind. Then people act like marriage is so sacred, when its not between a man and a woman. 

Personally, I have no problem with people marrying whoever they choose, but if your gonna do it, do it right. Sickness, Health, Death Do Us Part. If anything needs to happen to marriage, it is major penalties for basically committing perjury.

Marriage is not meaningless, it is a social custom that has evolved since the begining of man. Women use to be sold into marriage by their father and later marriage became the escape plan for male and female teenages in the 15th century and on. Marriage for love is the newest transformation. If you think marriage means picking one person and never divorcing because the church says so then you are blind. The church has never changed anything about marriage, people can still get sold into marriage and the church wouldn't care. Today, less people are getting married because there is less need for it. Sinlge moms are not viewed as whores, single men are just players, and more people are choosing to live out of the closet. Last I read, around less then 40% of people age 20-50 are married and this number is decreasing every year.

While the percentage of people married has lowered the age people are getting married has significantly changed.  In 1970, only 35.8% of men aged 20-24 weren't married, now that number is 86.9%.  For women, this was 54.7% and is now 76.4%.  If you look at the 40-44 age group, however, you will see the %'s for men going from 4.9% to 16.9% and for women from 6.3% to 12.9%.  In between those age groups, rather than the %'s changing almost completely during one age group, they slowly get lower and lower, meaning about the same amount of people (assuming all groups have the same amount of people) are getting married at each age.