Shouldn't a decision as life altering as marriage be made as a careful one? Shouldn't the decision of who you will sleep beisde, eat with and merge incomes with be something that you are sure of? Shouldn't it be someone that you love with nothing less than your whole heart? "It's one of the only decisions in life that needs sometimes months to be sure of - and you'd want to be sure in a world where in 1998 2.2 million couples married and 1.1 million couples divorced,58 million couples were married, yet separated, and people between the ages of 25 to 39 make up 60% of all divorces. In the video, it is suggested that we are drying up as a society, i thought about it and was confused, but then I decided that there must be some witty analogy to go along with this statement- nope! Everything was about the kids, "people are having less children," "people aren't wanting to have children," "people are being selfish." Okay, I'm fine with the statements about not having as many children if any now, because it is fact, but how are people being selfish? Selfish to me would be if people were getting married and had children that they only sort of wanted, or had children that they didn't want at all. Anne- Marie ( seen in the video) was dead on when she said that society was more self aware now because of all the choice- marriage and children shouldn't be a hurried decision, it should be what YOU want! Barbra (also seen in the video) was far off when she started speaking of marriage being something that is right when you are in your twenties and having kids before you are thirty is what's right. With how far women have come in the past 100 years not one is going to fall for the idea that marriage and children are right at a certain time, people will make these life changing decisions when they are ready- not because it is economically correct.
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