Threats to Marriage :: Social Issues, Single Mothers

Today there are many threats to nuptials and family and every hotshot seems to train an opinion on how to create it fix it repair it or dissolve it. We no longer look to marriage ceremony with dreamy visions of a spouse and the endless bounty of the life and family before us. We seem to essential many of the benefits a marriage brings without making the commitment. In the 1700s marriage was a commitment between families, which was taken seriously. There were marriage bonds with monies paying(a) and then the court order for the marriage and in other colonies this time-revered plow might have 17 distinctive steps. http//www.austincc.edu/jdikes/Marriage%20Ways%20ALL.pdf Ever since Dan Quayle utilize the television character tater Brown in his June 1992 speech as encouraging family disintegration the government has continued to make, marital status and family organize.major themes of political rhetoric and government policy (Page 518). Quayle also remarked that, marriage i s in all likelihood the best anti- privation program of all (American day-dream and Values, Page 179). Here was one politician who believed the country needed better role models and a drive home to the values on which our country was founded. Dafoe Whitehead suggests these topics are perceived as an attack on hit mothers and are met with anger and denial (American Vision and Values, Page 182). Rather than attack a single family structure - single mothers, consider the outcomes produced by non-traditional structures. Kay Hymowitz believes we are becoming a nation of disclose and unequal families that threatens to last in the foreseeable future (Page 560). This will have consequences on every aspect of our society. Marriage, before children, was the given status quo for the pro-family bound of the 1950s. At that time, divorce and illegitimacy was of todays rate, marriage was universally praised and family was hailed as the most basic institution. The 1960s brought disrup tive social and heathenish forces. The divorce rate soared and illegitimacy increased 22%. In the 1970s we see where women could now afford a family without a spouse. It seems the choice to represent equally with men devalued the homemaker role of previous decades (Graglia, Carolyn municipal Tranquility Page 540). These choices were centered on career goals and achieving motherhood without unfeignedly addressing the needs of family and children. And yet many single mothers hover around the poverty line not nearly as glamorous as Murphy Brown made it seem.