by Patriarch Verlch » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:43 am
Actually marriage is in institution found very early in the bible when God said in the Jewish Old Testament, "It is not good that man should be alone." "I will make him a help meet." Adam then called her "Wo-man" "because she was taken out of man, she was bone on his bones and flesh of his flesh because God says he used a rib of Adam.
Now, you can disbelieve that, which is fine. I can find no eye witnesses in any other theory. Questions can be raised. There are many other reasons I put my faith in the bible.
That said, studies have shown that women are happiest when married in a stable relationship. With men as the head of the household daughters grow up with plenty of fatherly male attention. This stops the young girls from using sex to gain attention from boys, and could end up pregnant at a young age.
A stable marriage is the best for young boys. If their home life is a wreck, mom is a poor single mother, is a breeding ground for criminal activity. As 85% of all criminals come from broken homes, where the head of household is the mother. (the man that stole my car was a meth addict from a broken home, raised by a poor single mother)
Kate Obrien (sp ??) in her book "Women who make the World worse" made mention of a study done. They polled 100k women 20 years ago and 100k men to find their happiness levels. 20 years later they did the same. What they found was that women's happiness level was 20 points less, and men's were relatively the same. Women, in general are happiest married, why is feminism trying to take that away?
Not only do married men live longer and married women live longer, than their single counterparts, but married men and women live longer than their single homosexual gay counterparts. The average life span of a homosexual man is 55 (???) somewhere in there.
So other than providing a stable environment for the next generation to grow in, marriage has positive elements that affect mankind.
Albeit nowadays it is unsafe for men to marry. I think it is an incentive for women to marry. Until child support and alimony laws change.
Men pay in 90% of divorces, 40 billion is alot to pay out to fund a bureaucratic nightmare of 60,000 folks, per year.
We need to keep the State out of our marriage, off our marriage certificates, and away from our children.
The best thing to do is to home school or send to private school our children.