Why do American marriages fail?

[Castor Muscular]

Fixed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

First, we're not a democratic nation.  We're a constitutional republic. 

Anyway, an oligarchy shouldn't have happened here.  The constitution should have prevented an oligarchy.  But it didn't because the republic deteriorated pretty much the same way all political systems deteriorate into oligarchies (which is the Iron law).  Our representatives ignored the constitution and accumulated more power than they were supposed to have.  Even now we have a lawless president and a lawless congress, and nobody does anything meaningful about it.  Given the chance, I have no doubt Obama would make America "graduate" from an oligarchy to a monarchy, but I don't think he'll get that chance.

We're probably stuck with an oligarchy unless we have some sort of revolution.    Personally, I'm thinking of moving to a country where there's more freedom... like China.

 

[thethinkingrebel]

Fixed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

First, we're not a democratic nation.  We're a constitutional republic. 

Anyway, an oligarchy shouldn't have happened here.  The constitution should have prevented an oligarchy.  But it didn't because the republic deteriorated pretty much the same way all political systems deteriorate into oligarchies (which is the Iron law).  Our representatives ignored the constitution and accumulated more power than they were supposed to have.  Even now we have a lawless president and a lawless congress, and nobody does anything meaningful about it.  Given the chance, I have no doubt Obama would make America "graduate" from an oligarchy to a monarchy, but I don't think he'll get that chance.

We're probably stuck with an oligarchy unless we have some sort of revolution.    Personally, I'm thinking of moving to a country where there's more freedom... like China.

It would not become a monarchy, not in the traditional sense, what WILL become a soviet style dictatorship, which will be a vassal state subject to a world government, this has always been the plan.

 

[Aviator]

I know many couples who have been married for more than fifty years.  My own grandparents were married for nearly 65 years.  Yet, many of the children of these long-married couples have been divorced.  WHY?  Why is divorce much more prevalent now?

I agree that divorce has been made to be far too easy these days.

That said, some couples would be better off divorcing than staying together and absolutely miserable for 50 or 60 years.  Sometimes, people just make the mistake of marrying the wrong person.

 

[rsc2a]

I agree that divorce has been made to be far too easy these days.

That said, some couples would be better off divorcing than staying together and absolutely miserable for 50 or 60 years.  Sometimes, people just make the mistake of marrying the wrong person.

Umm...no.

 

[Izdaari]

Mine failed because we were both too young and probably not ready to be married to anybody at all. Were we right for each either? I still think so. We had love and compatible personalities. But we lacked maturity and commitment. And neither of us were Christians at the time.

That was 35+ years ago. I never tried again, never found the right person. That is, I've dated and even been in love, but none of them were really good marriage candidates. It could still happen but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[BALAAM]

Because more people today treat marriage as little more than a legal contract for tax purposes, and think of marriage from the perspective of what they can get out of it rather than what they can give.

A little off topic but AresMan I am starting over for the third time on your book. I bought it on Kindle and it is kind of a difficult format for a study book. But all in all I would say "Good Job"!

 

[Raine]

More people have the option to leave. A lot of people in the past put up with spouses who cheated, abused them, etc because they had no way to support themselves or didn't want to face social ostracism. Now, more women have education and job opportunities, divorce is not as stigmatized, and domestic violence and other forms of abuse are taken more seriously.

There is also a lot more cheating now done openly and a lot of married people who are "experimenting" with homosexual relationships - in the past this was kept very secret, but now it's easier for a spouse to catch online and our society is so sick that many people will approach their spouse openly and suggest sexual relationships with other people.