Do people value marriage the way they used to? Many people believe that marriage is a sacrament by which two people are united in love and become one. For many people, marriage is simply a civil ceremony, a legal step confirming the union of a man and woman. Indeed, our values of marriage have changed over the past years. Marriage is no longer a sacrament by which two people bond together and putatively lasts until death. Therefore, people don’t value marriage the way they used to, divorce, working parents, and undisciplined children is the key problem.
Over the years, divorce, which has been very common in today’s societies, is the major cause that leads to the stray of marriage values. Divorce is a controversial issue in the United States that most people accept as a way of life. Many people think that it would be best if families stayed together, while others believe that an unhappy marriage is useless, and the dissolution of marriage is the best choice. However, with current laws being the way they are, the process of getting a divorce is too simple, which is why people tend to opt-out of their marriage instead of working at it first.
In America, divorce has been on a rise since the past thirty years. “The divorce rate today is 3.6 divorces per one thousand couples per year…is at its lowest level since 1970. For marriages that occurred in the 1950s through the 1970s, the figures clearly show that the probability of divorce before each anniversary rose for each successive marriage cohort. For first marriages that occurred in the 1980s, the proportion that had dissolved by each anniversary was consistently lower and it is lower again for marriages that occurred in the 1990s” (Davis). Divorce not only affects the parents and the children it also affects the marriage values we used to have.
Furthermore, divorce is not the only factor that has been leading to the stray of marriage values. Clearly, working parents are also a factor in the loss of marriage values. Family life is changing, and so, too, is the role mother and fathers play at work and at home, indeed, parents have trouble balancing work and family
