Law Of Unintended Consequences wrote:
So you're saying that an intact family structure isn't the foundation of our society? Please tell me the benfits of your wonderful cultural revolution.
I'm sure that you like to think of your lack of standards as liberation from some old guard. The problem is that those standards exist (and existed) for many practical reasons. Your goal may have been for a hot girl to walk by you in a miniskirt, but the reality of what you've done is made it acceptable obese people to wear stretch pants in public.
p.s. You ARE the establishment.
Can two people not settle down together and form a family without being married? It seems that going through a ceremony and filing for a certification from the government doesn't really change your ability to live together and raise kids. If your parents had not been married, could they not have done all of the same things that they did?
You might say that the commitment that comes with marriage forces families to stay together, but with the divorce and separation rates that exist today, this isn't a valid argument. Marriage brings no commitment unless you decide that it does. You can just as easily commit to live together and raise a family without being married. Unless, of course, you think that God will smite you if you for being together without being married. In that case, you have a whole other issue.