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Marriage in the United States it’s being taken as a privilege. Many Americans do not view marriage as something sacred in order to form a family, but as either an obligation for those who gets arranged marriage, as a prestige, and even take it for granted. They do not value marriage anymore as it used to be or even know what marriage is and why we have to get married. Andersen in his book Sociology the Essentials on chapter thirteen “Families and Religion,” constitutes a numerous of points on why do families get into a divorce and what factor causes it. A short overview on how he bases his point of view and examples, he included that Race and gender, societal division and job opportunities linked to gender, and families’ status are part of …show more content…
Social class and job opportunities linked to gender is the issues in this case. Many people tends to hooked together according to their social classes stability either both lower class, either upper class or both middle class. Well in some case it might happen that some couple are getting to getter and one class is higher than the other one. Well that’s where is big marital issue will start. They would not be any compatibilities throughout the house core. One will be able to cope with the house expenses while the other won’t be able, which sometimes the one who is making more money won’t understand the other and will lead the couple into divorce. Although marital instability is part of the marital issue, job opportunity linked to gender covers it. It covers it in a way that women tends to be refused in the work force, which she is the one making less money that will cause martial …show more content…
Many children tends to live in a stepfamilies home, a gay and lesbian home or even a single parent home where the mother is a head of the families. However, this is a big cause of marital instability because the children in this case is affected by being love or not compared to other kids when they lived in the stepfamilies, the children does not have much attention as he or she must have when they are in the single parent with the mother as a single parent because the parent is more busy to make money to raise the child than actually give the attention he or she

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