Re: Single Culture/Late Marriages
I don’t know if “delay marriage for the sake of career” is how I would phrase it but, personally, I think people should hold off on marriage until they have a stable career and are able to support themselves. If only one spouse is stable and has a career, what would happen if something happened and that spouse loses their job or becomes ill and cannot work?
In regards to how the household chores should be divided between spouses, I was raised to believe that everyone who lives in a house is responsible for the running and maintenance of that house. Naturally, as both spouses are living together, the household chores must be divided equally between spouses with allowances made in certain circumstances (ie. if one spouse gets home much earlier than the other, if one works weekends while the other doesn’t, etc.).
As far as women surviving without marriage, I believe they can and I have seen one example of this in real life. She is a friend of my mum’s whose husband passed away shortly after they got married (within a year or two I believe) and never remarried. She seems to be doing fine and she grew up during an era (the mid-1960s and 1970s) when not getting married wasn’t viewed as a viable option even in the western world, so I don’t think not getting married should really be such an issue in modern times. That said, although women can most definitely survive without marriage, I think that as humans we would all prefer to have some sort of companion throughout our lives, so I don’t think there are very many people who will opt for foregoing marriage altogether.