Loki
06-18-2010, 12:23 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8745000/8745287.stm
Why marriage matters
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/48096000/jpg/_48096000_000404631-1.jpg
Once, unless you were rich, there was but one way to become a fully paid-up member of society: get hitched. Today marriage is a free choice. Daddy can't make you. Employers don't demand it. The word 'spinster' has lost its sting, sex, its stigma, and nobody calls a lovechild a bastard. So what's the point of marriage?
It's an obvious question. Yet for me it misses the point. Now marriage is no longer compulsory, and the roles of husband and wife have shed their starch, we have an opportunity to custom-fit the marital commitment, to suit ourselves as never before.
Read more ... (http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8745000/8745287.stm)
Ok who wants to marry me? :coffee:
Why marriage matters
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/48096000/jpg/_48096000_000404631-1.jpg
Once, unless you were rich, there was but one way to become a fully paid-up member of society: get hitched. Today marriage is a free choice. Daddy can't make you. Employers don't demand it. The word 'spinster' has lost its sting, sex, its stigma, and nobody calls a lovechild a bastard. So what's the point of marriage?
It's an obvious question. Yet for me it misses the point. Now marriage is no longer compulsory, and the roles of husband and wife have shed their starch, we have an opportunity to custom-fit the marital commitment, to suit ourselves as never before.
Read more ... (http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8745000/8745287.stm)
Ok who wants to marry me? :coffee: