Inequality In Families

Imagine you just got married one year ago but something is feeling different, your time isn’t to each other and now its coming to a divorce. I witnessed this myself with my cousin who was married for only a little time had a child and ended up with divorce. In the article “From Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family” authors June Carbone and Naomi Cahn talk about how families changed from the past to today. The authors talk about how people are postponing marriages and the ones who do get married don’t last so long. Carbone and Cahn explain in the article that there are a lot of children being born outside of marriages. They inform us on how families are put in different classes and based on this men and women choose …show more content…
As stated “The decline in children living in two-parented families has been offset by an almost threefold increase in those living in just one parent – typically the mother.” (pewsocialtrends) What that means is this problem multiplied by three times. Couples that have children either get divorced or some aren’t even married to begin with. From the same article as before its stated “In remainder of the two-parents families, the parents of cohabiting but are not married.” (pewsocialtrends) This issue is tremendous and its only getting worse with time. In todays society genders are wanting equality and women are okay with being by themselves. Presented in Psychology Today “With more and better employment opportunities, women now can do everything men can do, so there’s no need for them to get married.” To see how everything is changing is hard to understand why it’s like that. Between everything else same sex marriages are now legal in all fifty states. Announced in one article “Same sex marriage is now legal in the entire US after supreme court ruling striking down state marriage bans.” (bbc) The way children are being raised is different because the economy is changing in a completely different way. Children’s views are changing because of who they must look up to …show more content…
Its tragic to see what families are becoming the economy has been changing everything. Morals should be coming into question on why its becoming like this and how did we stray so far. People should have more of an open mind spend more time with the one they think there in love with. Couples are getting divorce because of themselves and there not giving the time they should to their partner. The deal with the family classes is because people are only looking in there groups instead of looking outside of them. People need to see what is happening and change some things around to fix what we are calling marriage