Re: Think about it
Someone here asked how long it takes to get kids independent. I say 45 years give or take a decade.
Marrage is a very idealised institution that increased numbers of poeple are turning their back on, one in three marrages break down. Are all of them really to blame? I don't think there is a greater stress upon long term commitment today - I just think that we are just questioning the norms more readily.
It was very known and common for a man to have an affair, the bored housewife and the postman jokes also came from somewhere - it was all swept under the rug - now with women being more enpowered, they refuse to take this kind of ****, they want more rights. The entire dynamics of gender relations in all sectors has been subject to somewhat radical change in the past 30-40 years. Both parties are generally mroe educated.
Its a healthy debate, but unless you are open to living a life of "sin" its kinda the only route to go.
We do alot of things that are anti-evolutionary. These are the things that set us aside from animals.