W. Bradford Wilcox's Why The Ring Matters

Society is moving at a fast pace and we must learn how to adapt to change. Just like technology is changing year after year, we must learn to adapt to marital statuses. As a result in change, today we hear of marriages who become a disaster and end up hurting other people like their children. In addition, marriages who become a disaster don 't get divorce on time then end up staying together for the sake of their children, but yet, at time only end up damaging the children’s lifetime. But we cannot be so harsh on society and whether people decide to legally joint their lives together. To all we see in bad marriages, there is good marriages who stay in love forever together and end up raising happy children. Whether or not people get married should be up to them; there …show more content…
The couples who decide to marry are more likely to form more stable families than those who don’t marry, divorce or those cohabiting. In her essay “Why The Ring Matters” W. Bradford Wilcox explains the impact that cohabiting brings to children “But a growing body of social scientific evidence strongly suggests that cohabitation and children don’t mix even though more than 40 percent of American children will spend some time in a cohabiting household” (Wilcox 430). This is a large percentage of our population that is being affected by unhealthy relationships. Worst, it damages children mentally, physically, and socially. This ramifications can lead children to fail in school, be sexually abused, get involved in illegal activities, or suffer from depression. Reading what Wilcox reinstates in “Why The Ring Matters”, my interpretation obtain is that the most favorable solution is marriage when it comes to raising a family. In advantage for ourselves, families and society people who love each other should marry and raise exemplary families and children who will one day might follow your teachings and make of this world a better place to