Marriage

[AntiochusIII]

Interesting read, Lemur, and interesting opinion, Blodrast. I find myself in some level of agreement with you that educated women may want more independence and less marriage -- or perhaps American culture has not moved as far as the movies show just yet?

Of single motherhood I agree with the article that it tends to be a problem. It can be an educated choice or a problem; more often than not it is the latter. Problematic families can also create problematic children; where would 16-years-old Ashley go if she can't talk to mom and dad (or moms, or dads) about her boyfriend/sex problems? Her only parent is mom and she works all the time just to scrape things by. Her inner city school also sucks and filled to the brim with drugs, gangs, and assorted generic problems. Unless she has a superhuman will to succeed, a passion of admirable quality, or a dose of overwhelming common sense, or just a good internet connection to vent her problems on 2chan, she will face at least some problems she can't solve.

Unfortunately I'm still too young to care much about the topic of the article in general and hope to live to be too old to care. If I'm ever to have children I agree entirely that it should be done in a stable and, if not rainbow-sunshine happy then at least content, environment. A family, married or not. But so far I don't think I have either the (capability of) responsibility or the desire.

The little snippet from the article about the illusory threat from gays is also a nice shot against bigoted faggery [invented word with similarities to existing ones] America. If stable families as opposite to unstable families (leave some space for us singles) is good for society, then why the hell are we blocking one of its tools?