one commits oneself to exert one's willpower until death parts one spouse from the other.
I guess that I think that in some situations that is not a good thing for either partner and having made that sort of a promise can mean that people are less willing to step away from what has become a bad situation because they feel like they've failed, especially when there is religion involved.
As far as statistics go, now that there is less social pressure to marry your partner than there was, I think that they are considerably misleading. What I think we are seeing is that the type of couple who are more likely to stick together and bring up their children carefully are also more likely to commit to getting married for whatever reason. There's a clever name for this (where 1 item appears to cause another but both are in fact caused by a third thing) but I can't remember what it is.
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Re: paternity/marriage
Date: April 29th, 2003 03:43 am (UTC)From:I guess that I think that in some situations that is not a good thing for either partner and having made that sort of a promise can mean that people are less willing to step away from what has become a bad situation because they feel like they've failed, especially when there is religion involved.
As far as statistics go, now that there is less social pressure to marry your partner than there was, I think that they are considerably misleading. What I think we are seeing is that the type of couple who are more likely to stick together and bring up their children carefully are also more likely to commit to getting married for whatever reason. There's a clever name for this (where 1 item appears to cause another but both are in fact caused by a third thing) but I can't remember what it is.