Debate: Marriage

The pros and cons of marriage?

Background and context

Purpose of marriage: Is it valuable?

Pro

• Marriage allows a community to celebrate a couple's love. When two individuals love on another, it is important that they be able to include their friends, family, and larger community in a celebration of that love. This helps solidify the love two individuals have for one another in the larger context of their relationship to their community. And, it allows the community to celebrate and feel good about one of life's most important objectives - to love and be loved.

• Marriage is about providing stable home life for the rearing of children.

Con

• It is fallacious to presume that marriage as an institution is what provides a stable home environment for a child. What is most important is the relationship between the two parents and their attitudes and relationships individually and together with the child. This is completely uncorrelated with marriage. What’s more a stable co-habitation situation is far better for a child than an unhappy marriage. The heartache, pain, stress and psychological disturbance of a child when their parents break up is not due to the breakdown of marriage but the breakdown of a relationship.

Importance: Is marriage still important in our society, or has it become obsolete?

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See also

• Debate: Marriage is outdated
• Debate: Divorce
• Debate: Premarital sex
• Debate: No-fault divorce

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