VAMatt said:
Nogamez said:
You dont have to be married to be a family you know. |
Ka-pi96 said:
Good. Marriage is overrated and it's about time it started to die out anyway. |
SuperNova said:
This might come as a shock to you, but my parents were never married. Yes, I'm one of those 'out of wedlock' children.
Of course, they had been toghether for nine years when they had me and it lasted another four, but no marriage ever happened.
This did not stop me from being a happy, well adjusted child for the most part. Nor did it mean at any point that I didn't have two loving, caring parents, two sets of grandparents and an assortment of aunts, uncles and family friends, that all looked out for me and took care of me growing up.
It is almost as if marriage is a societal contruct, that is loosing importance or something.
Then again I'm not american. |
Barozi said:
pretty statistic but of no significance.
You don't have to be married to live and raise a child together.
The child's parents could be divorced one year after childbirth, which leads to the child being raised by one parent. |
smroadkill15 said:
So what? My nephew was born out of out wedlock and my sister and her husband are still together after 15 years. |
I'm glad to see that nearly everybody here understands that this is not a problem. Marriage, in and of itself, is of no consequence whatsoever. It is literally just a government license, proving that you paid a fee.
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Common law marriage doesn't require a license or fee. Is that being represented in the data in this thread. Marriage, be it by paper or common law, is a pretty good thing for families.
