marriage
... Many politicians think that government should more actively involve themselves with the marriage process. I think that marriage is, and should remain, a personal affair. ... The National Marriage Project has been going to great lengths to find out what the reasons for such a high divorce rate are, and what can be done about it. ... I think that a lot of time people get married because marriage is an accepted and even expected step in one’s life. ... I think that maybe the media has created such an idealistic, storybook outlook on marriage and love, that people are disappointed with their own relationships. However, I think that you should be free to make your own decisions regarding your future, and what bigger decision is there than marriage. One part of the study that Barbara Whitehead and David Popenoe conducted that I found interesting, was that 80% of those who participated thought that marriage was a personal affair, and that the government should not interfere.