<i>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.<p>The first marriage is recorded in the book of Genesis, at the creation of the first two human beings, Adam and Eve.</i><p>It's a shame, it had been rather sensible up until that point, and from a different enough perspective that it was worth reading.
I disagree with the fundamental premise of this post.<p>90% of restaurants fail w/in the first year. Does that mean starting a restaurant is a bad idea? What about creating a startup?<p>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 <i>allowed</i> to get divorced, rather than forcing them to remain in a loveless, or abusive, or otherwise dysfunctional marriage is not a bad thing.<p>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?<p>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.
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.