Meme

TEN EMOTIONS.
1. are you missing someone right now? -- Yes.
2. are you happy? --  Yes.
3. are you mad? -- Neither angry nor insane, thank you.
4. are you bored? -- Yes, otherwise I really wouldn't be doing this.
5. are you German? -- Yes.
6. are you Irish? -- No.
7. are you French? -- No.
8. are you Italian? -- No.
9. are your parents still married? -- Yes. They will have been married for 25 years this year.
10. do you like someone right now? -- When did "to like" become "to love"? Yes, I am in love.

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Poor traditional marriage... *pets*

"Marriage under growing threat"

How shocking, look at that:

• "Curch claims traditional family unit under threat
• Divorce rates rise 19%
• Number of children born out of wedlock heads towards 50%"

"Out of wedlock"? Do people really still say that? And also, more importantly: who cares?

When will these people stop, think, and embrace non-traditional families as well?

Some of the happiest families I know are patchwork families that are certainly not traditional while some of the unhappiest families are traditional families with traditionally married people who just never got divorced rather than staying together because of the undying love and a deep spiritual connection.

Of course there ARE happy traditional families as well, and part of me has always thought that those were the lucky ones, the ones who had "gotten things right", but what I and, apparently, these people, fail to realise is that there is no "right" and "wrong" when the happiness of children is concerned, and I am sure you can be as happy or unhappy in a patchwork family or a family with parents who do not have a traditional marriage or relationship as in a traditional family with wife and husband and their two point five (one son, one daughter) ickle little kids and a dog.

This is silly beyond reason. Even if the numbers are going up, even if they're "quickie" divorces, I sincerely doubt that they are ever easy, or that non-traditional families are bad for children or society.