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Latest Blog; Marriage = Roommates with S-X
Topic Started: Aug 14 2007, 10:05 PM (327 Views)
Post #1 Aug 14 2007, 10:05 PM	Goofball
Dr. L's most recent blog is very interesting. Check it out if you haven't. http://www.drlaura.com/blog/ After a few more generations we either aren't going to have kids or the kids will all be criminals - I just don't think a society/race can survive without kids being cared for by loving parents.	Civil Servant Posts: 623 Group: Full Members Member #409 Joined: June 27, 2007



Post #2 Aug 15 2007, 10:05 PM	Nikki0903
After getting into the debate on the WeLoveDrLaura site about pre-marital sex, I did some research on the direction of marriage and the value of family in the US. I found an essay written by David Popenoe who, along with Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-directs The National Marriage Project. His essay "The State of our Unions 2007" clearly indicates that the US, while we still appreciate the sanctity of marriage more than any other developed country, is in fact losing respect for the marital commitment and that we are slipping the the European direction. It prints out to 41 pages, and I am half way through it. Very interesting reading.	Civilian Posts: 299 Group: Full Members Member #361 Joined: June 16, 2007



Post #3 Aug 15 2007, 10:53 PM	Goofball
I looked over your post on WLDL on pre-marital sex. You make some very good points. I haven't been listening to Dr. L all that long, under a year. But I think or the way I understand her is that she has a problem with random sex. I classify pre-marital sex as the sex you have after you're engaged but before the vows. I think I heard her define it that way to one caller, but I could be mistaken. Anyway - I see marriage slipping into the abyss. When I was little I was the only kid in the neighborhood with divorced parents, for about the first year of living there. Each year brought more and more kids from divorced families. I've always believed in marriage, but until this husband, I hadn't been so good at picking a good man. I'm on #3 and we both are in the marriage for keeps.	Civil Servant Posts: 623 Group: Full Members Member #409 Joined: June 27, 2007



Post #4 Aug 15 2007, 11:47 PM	Nikki0903
And these days, I am finding that there are more kids whose parents aren't divorced because they never even bothered to get married. Most of my son's classmates' moms or dads aren't in the home. One girl is being cared for by an aunt and her grandma. One of his close friends' mom just moved out and another one of his friends' mom just got married to the guy with whom she shacked up and had a baby. As far as I know, they are a happy family. Everyone I knew when I was a kid had married parents. My best friend was the first one I knew whose parents were getting a divorce.	Civilian Posts: 299 Group: Full Members Member #361 Joined: June 16, 2007



Post #5 Aug 16 2007, 07:50 AM	Goofball
I find it all very sad. But actually, my parents were never married. My oldest brother was born in 1958 and I was born in 1962 - unmarried parents we not common back then. Of course I didn't know this until I was in my teens. But it's very obvious in my Dad's trust - my two brothers and I are nearly called the b@st@ard children. It's sad. I looked to my friends parents as role models for marriage. And then one that I was extremely close to, got divorced when I was 19.	Civil Servant Posts: 623 Group: Full Members Member #409 Joined: June 27, 2007



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