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The debate on whether to have an arranged marriage or love marriage is making marriage a controversial issue nowadays. Although both are recognized union of a man and a woman as partners in a relationship, the criteria of this unison is different. Some oppose arranged marriages, in which the bride and groom are chosen by their families, arguing that there is lack of love between couple; however, arranged marriages not only cause love to bloom, but it also consider family affairs and has low…

Is Marriage Out-of-Date in Today’s Society? Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband! Marriage seem like the most important part of life because the media portrait that when a men and women fall in love they get marry in a couple of month after knowing each other and then they have an amazing family and live in a big house. In today society Marriage is out-of-date because people find the single life to be more enjoyable. Single people and…

When it comes to marriage, divorce, and the name change game, most people have a solid opinion. Most have such a solid opinion, in fact, that they never question it. They don’t wonder if they’re going to take their spouse’s name or not when they get married. They already know their correct answer. They don’t wonder if they’re going to lose their spouse’s name or not if it comes to divorce. They already know their correct answer. Yet, even those who have never questioned what the “right” thing to…

Marriage and Divorce The article, “The State of Our Union” by: David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, discusses marriages and marital relationships in the United States. Rutgers University utilizes yearly data on marriages and divorces. This information and statistics show both increases and decreases in marriages among men and women of different races and ages throughout the decades until the new millennium. “The State of Our Union”, shows us that most people plan on getting married in…

While several factors are predictors of divorce, there are also predictors of marital stability. Marital satisfaction is a major predictor of marital stability, or more specifically, eventual divorce (Tach & Halpern-Meekin, 2012). Marital satisfaction, interchangeable with marital happiness describes marriage in which both spouses are relatively happy with the marriage–marital satisfaction has become the measure of a good marriage in American culture (Amato, 2014). Marital satisfaction has…

Whites are getting divorce less than Blacks (Saunders et al 2013). Whites have a percentage of 10.7, who are divorced and 1.6 who are legally separated. For Blacks, the percentage is different, it is 11.2 percent who are divorced and 4.3 percent who are legally separated. There are 85% of blacks see themselves as religious. The divorce rates for Blacks is increasing. The rate is going up from 9.7 percent in 2000 to 11.2 percent in 2011. Some of the pastors believe a decrease in coming to church…

“It’s cheaper to keep her”. If all married couples followed this advice the divorce rate would plummet to 50%, guaranteed. (We all know relationships go through test, trials, and tribulations and through the test of time will determine if that relationship will stand for crash and burn). But is divorce really necessary? In Eduardo Porter’s The New Mating Market, we see divorce as a major killer in every aspect of life; finances are affected, children are emotionally torn, social lives are left…

When two people want to get married, they assume that the marriage will last a lifetime. However, when actuality sets in, a reasonable quantity of married couples asks for a divorce. The divorce rate, especially in America, has transformed into part of the culture war, as more conservative observers see an increase in the divorce rate as a manifestation of moral decline. Initially, with the constant development of society, the interchange of modern marriage values is diversified. Values resolve…

“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther People getting married is a wonderful that especially because it joins to people together for ever but sometimes it is not always together. Divorce is a common thing that happens to mostly everyone in the world. In one day there is nearly 2,400 divorces and for a year there is over 876,000 divorces (32 Shocking Divorce Statistics, 2012). The question for this is why is…

William Lyon Phelps, who was a well-known American author, critic, and scholar once said “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage”. Marriage is a life changing experience. People always ask, who’s that person that I am going to spend the rest of my life with? In an ideal marriage, one is with the person one loves and the two of them start a family together. Marriage gives them financial stability and it assures trust and commitment between them. There are people who will…