4 ms·
I don't understand why it is stressed that all of this is connected to marriage (or absense of). Parents walking away from responsibility is a cause for problem
by Helmut10001 4y ago
I don't understand why it is stressed that all of this is connected to marriage (or absense of). Parents walking away from responsibility is a cause for problems in children, no matter whether you are married or not. Also, I doubt that the degree of married parents is connected to class. We have both a PhD, a child, and live together for 15 years, failing both to see a reason for marriage.
- jl6 4y agoMaybe there are some saintly principled people who will never walk away from responsibility no matter what, for whom marriage adds no value, and maybe there are some feckless unprincipled people who will walk away from responsibility at the slightest provocation, for whom marriage also adds no value, but maybe there is a large intermediate population who may occasionally feel a moderate urge to walk but are dissuaded by the added difficulty that breaking a marriage presents (stigma, cost, legal process), and thus decide to stick it out. Maybe marriage is for those people.
- Helmut10001 4y agoPoint taken. This argument is what I expected to read in the article and I agree, it seems like a valid aspect.