from Hacker News

Is Marriage Outdated?

by fezzl on 11/7/11, 7:51 AM with 4 comments

  • by mooism2 on 11/7/11, 9:04 AM

    To enjoy a wonderful, productive and stable marriage, its true beginning must first be considered. Only one reliable account provides the answers—the world’s best-selling book of all time, the Bible—which gives a record of when marriage was first instituted.

    The first marriage is recorded in the book of Genesis, at the creation of the first two human beings, Adam and Eve.

    It's a shame, it had been rather sensible up until that point, and from a different enough perspective that it was worth reading.

  • by knowtheory on 11/7/11, 9:16 AM

    I disagree with the fundamental premise of this post.

    90% of restaurants fail w/in the first year. Does that mean starting a restaurant is a bad idea? What about creating a startup?

    People should think about the consequences of the commitments they make. But even then, things happen in the lives of two people that can drive a wedge between them. The fact that, in such an event, they are allowed to get divorced, rather than forcing them to remain in a loveless, or abusive, or otherwise dysfunctional marriage is not a bad thing.

    The whole "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" of broken homes issue is a more complicated matter. How about we start teaching teenagers that having kids is a huge responsibility and that it's really important to use birth control and condoms to keep from getting pregnant?

    Or, i suppose, we could just force all the people involved in teen pregnancies to get married. yeah. i'm sure that'd work better.

  • by bryanlarsen on 11/7/11, 2:56 PM

    That '50%' figure widely stated was only a brief spike that occurred when laws & society changed, making it easier to obtain them. For marriages consummated this year, the number is under 1/3. If you're both above the age of 25 for your first marriage, the number drops to 1/5.