Threats to Marriage :: Social Issues, Single Mothers

like a shot there ar many a(prenominal) threats to wedding and family and everyone seems to have an opinion on how to create it fix it repair it or dissolve it. We no lengthy look to marriage with dreamy visions of a spouse and the endless bounty of the life and family before us. We seem to want many of the benefits a marriage brings without making the commitment. In the 1700s marriage was a commitment betwixt families, which was taken seriously. There were marriage bonds with monies paid and then the court frame for the marriage and in other colonies this time-revered process might have 17 distinctive steps. http//www.austincc.edu/jdikes/Marriage%20Ways%20ALL.pdf Ever since Dan Quayle used the television character spud Brown in his June 1992 speech as encouraging family disintegration the giving medication has continued to make, marital status and family structure.major themes of political rhetoric and political sympathies policy (Page 518). Quayle also remarked tha t, marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program of all(prenominal) (American Vision and Values, Page 179). Here was one politician who believed the republic unavoidable better role models and a return to the values on which our country was founded. Dafoe Whitehead suggests these topics are perceived as an ack-ack on wholeness mothers and are met with anger and denial (American Vision and Values, Page 182). Rather than attack a single family structure - single mothers, consider the outcomes produced by non-traditional structures. Kay Hymowitz believes we are becoming a nation of separate and unequal families that threatens to last in the foreseeable future (Page 560). This will have consequences on every scenery of our society. Marriage, before children, was the given status quo for the pro-family period of the 1950s. At that time, divorce and bar sinister was of todays rate, marriage was universally praised and family was hailed as the most primary institution. The 1960s brought disruptive social and cultural forces. The divorce rate soared and bar sinister increased 22%. In the 1970s we see where women could now bear a family without a spouse. It seems the choice to work equally with men dissipated the homemaker role of previous decades (Graglia, Carolyn Domestic Tranquility Page 540). These choices were concern on career goals and achieving motherhood without truly addressing the needs of family and children. And yet many single mothers hover around the poverty line not more or less as glamorous as Murphy Brown made it seem.