Is Marriage Obsolete?

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Two articles from our friends at the New York Times essentially arguing that marriage is obsolete and good riddance.
It used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage.
nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/for-women-under-30-most-births-occur-outside-marriage.html
Many women described a lifestyle of dating in which relationships sometimes resulted in children, but less often in fathers deeply involved in their families. Judge David Basinski of Lorain County Domestic Relations Court, in Elyria, said he recently had a case in which a man who had nine children by six women owed $55,000 in back child support. Child support cases have become so common among unmarried parents that the court now gives seminars on parental responsibilities.
nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/young-mothers-describe-marriages-fading-allure.html
 
This world is getting into a messed up place with unfaithful marriages, sexual intercourse, lust, contraception, and abortion.

That is why, the faithful Catholics, in union with the See, streghened by Christ, and the determination with all the Saints and Angels, must fight to keep what the Church teaches in this modern world.

Its a shame what this world has come too.
 
Anything God rasises to a Sacrament the spirit of the world will try to undermine and destroy.
 
The attack on marriage as given by God as a sacrament began with Martin Luther relegating it from the purvue of the Catholic Church to the State. Sacred Marriage was one of the victims of the so-called Reformation.
 
The attack on marriage as given by God as a sacrament began with Martin Luther relegating it from the purvue of the Catholic Church to the State. Sacred Marriage was one of the victims of the so-called Reformation.
Was that ML’s doing? I always wondered where that started. Can you elaborate or point to some sources?
 
In the widely read November 2011 Atlantic cover story, entitled “All the Single Ladies,” singleton Kate Bolick declares that “it’s time to embrace new ideas about romance and family — and to acknowledge the end of traditional marriage as society’s highest ideal.” And her latest piece, published this weekend in the Wall Street Journal, is titled “For Women, Is Home Really So Sweet?” In it, Bolick compares home ownership for single women to society’s high opinion of marriage. (Hint: They’re both overrated.)
Unlike women such as Condoleezza Rice, who quietly lead unconventional lives without a trace of resentment toward their fellow men, feminists are hell bent on changing society to accommodate them. They do this by implying the so-called rise of women is a great thing — and proof that marriage is an outdated, patriarchal institution. At an event in Washington D.C., Bolick and Rosin appear together to do just that. Rosin, in her trademark elitist and condescending fashion, had this to say: ”Having reported a lot on Christian conservatives, I can tell you they get married, like, as soon as they fall in love and, you know, it’s probably because they can’t have sex unless they’re married — which is not the case for most of us.” (Envision lots of insulting facial gestures, as well as laughter coming from the audience.) Just imagine if I were to say in a similar forum, “Yeah, you know how those Jews are.”
nationalreview.com/home-front/291473/why-men-are-slackers-and-women-are-single/suzanne-venker
 
The most idiotic reason that single mothers give for not marrying is: “I’m too poor to get married!” Evidently these women believe they’re not too poor to educate, house, feed, clothe, and provide a stable home and an enriching moral and cultural environment for a child on their own. The “I’m too poor” defense, documented by researchers such as Kathryn Edin, refers not simply to the cost of a wedding (which of course is avoidable through a City Hall ceremony), but to the day-to-day institution of marriage itself.
Now comes the New York Times validating this facile excuse for non-marriage in a front-page article on the juggernaut of illegitimacy (more than half of children born to women under 30 in 2009 were illegitimate): “Money helps explain why well-educated Americans still marry at high rates: they can offer each other more financial support, and hire others to do chores that prompt conflict.”
nationalreview.com/corner/291459/too-poor-marry-heather-mac-donald
Unwed childbearing is the “new normal” for women under 30, reports the New York Times. A study from the research organization Child Trends reveals that 53 percent of births to women in this age group now occur outside marriage.
However, this trend is anything but normal for some American women. The overwhelming majority of college-educated mothers — 95 percent — continue to put marriage before the baby carriage. On the other hand, the majority of single mothers are those who will have the hardest time raising a child alone when it comes to economic well-being: those with a high-school diploma or less.
The “new normal” in lower-income America compounds negative economic trends among this population. Having a child outside of marriage is one of the greatest drivers of poverty. Children born into single-parent homes are roughly five times more likely to be poor than their peers with married parents and 80 percent of all long-term poverty occurs in single-parent homes.
As a result, marriage and education are becoming the dividing lines of an economically split America.
nationalreview.com/corner/291505/unwed-childbearing-new-normal-depends-where-you-stand-rachel-sheffield
 
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