How is marriage depicted in main stream America?

Question

How is marriage depicted in main stream America?

Answer 1

In 2004, the American Anthropological Association released this statement:

The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-s*x partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies.

Answer 2

in vague glowing terms

as a constant state of conflict between two parties who, by virtue of their gender, can't possibly be expected to get along

as a contract, where many of the terms are hidden until it is in force

Answer 3

normal and correct and good for the children

Answer 4

Marriage has become a temporary institution; little more than the necessary prerequisite for a divorce.  Americans are no longer truly monogamous as was the (majority) case two generations ago.  These g**s we engage in 'serial monogamy' one partner at a time but we change them frequently.  The attitude towards marriage can e rather accurately summed up i the joke...

Why is divorce so expensive?

Because it's worth it.

Answer 5

like a death sentence

Answer 6

Marriage in America is depicted in two diffrent ways, by most there are still a few out there who believe diffrently , myself inculded, yet still not enough to be counted.

Way number one...

       Something you jump into because you are afraid of the world, and afraid to face it on your own, so you enlist someone else to go along for the ride, thus being depicted as a rough journey, and thanks to tv, filled with lust, affairs, lies, hatred, and other stuff. Not that before T.V that didn't go on but it now paints a picture of a normal marriage.

Way number 2

     It is depiced as white picked fence boy and a girl middle class surburbian pure bliss happiness.

Answer 7

husband , wife and 2.3 kids

Answer 8

I run into too many people today that marry for the dumbest reasons. Here are some examples:

1. Money

2. Looks

3. Body

4. He bought me a huge diamond because if he hadn't I wouldn't have married him.

5. Because my family says it's the right thing to do.

6. s*x

7. Career

8. Pregnancy

9. My dad said he'd kill him.

10. Religion.

11. Status. My brother is married and if I get married that'll make me cool too.

12. I'm too lazy to make it on my own.

13. I can't make it without them. I'm afraid to be independent.

14. I need someone to help with bills.

These are the most common ones I have encountered since 1986.

Answer 9

As an event (the wedding) and something that can be escaped very easily. I am from Australia though so Im talking about celebrities, they are constantly on and off engaged, married and divorced etc.