Marriage and Children
I find it really interesting that our society views marriage as important in some ways but in other ways it seems like we don’t care very much at all. We, as Americans, spend about 50 billion dollars annually (according to Wikipedia) on the wedding industry. We fight hard for marriage rights for everyone. Yet we have a very high divorce rate. Many people get a divorce and then regret it later. The September 16, 2015 issue of the Huffington Post took a poll to see what the leading cause of divorce was, and they found communication issues to be the number one reason for divorce. It appears that we still see the value in marriage, but we don’t know how to keep the marriage strong enough to last a lifetime. I recently read an article entitled The Impact of Family Formation Change on the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Well-Being of the Next Generation , by Paul Amato. I know that’s a long title, but so worth the read. He talks about how divorce...