Is 'singlehood' a way of the future?

Question

Are people heading towards a society where 'singlehood' (focus on own goals and life learnings, not marrying, having children with 'friends' or on own, etc.) is the prefered status? What does marriage really offer to people in this day and age?

Answer 1

To answer your question in a very broad sense - Read books about previous empires and kingdoms - You will learn that they all became great and due to moral decay, they died.   Everyone of them.

We in the USA have entered a phase of great moral decay. We are deteriorating at a fast pace. Why liberals would want this country to fail, is beyond me. Abortions, foul language, easy and free s*x, drunks, drugs, no respect for another, sticking our noses into other countries businesses, arrogants to no end, homosexuals with children, women with b******s.  What are we to expect ? Social decay.

Answer 2

Then there is obese women going to the sperm bank in order to have tortured children, (that are unable to grow up). It is possible this is then covered up by pathological lying.

Answer 3

I think more and more people will not allow religion to dictate to them how a "moral" person should be, when most of the holy rollers can't even practice what they preach.

And men have been running out on women and children for thousands of years because they just don't want the responsibility.

If you can't depend on yourself, don't expect others to.

Answer 4

That's a really good topic to bring up, and I think we are. We kind of already are, people are waiting a lot longer to marry and have kids, making sure their career is intact before anything else. However, this might just be in America. Anyway, it's probably for the best, though considering how overpopulated the word is becoming. Also a lot of it has to do with the fact that religion is virtually nonexistent in the modern world. I'm not saying people don't believe in God, but the ideal that s*x should be before marriage is virtually extinct in modern society, so no one is really missing out on anything being single. In my opinion, marriage is just a label, and yes,there are more important things. In a world where women don't feel the need so much to have a man by their side, they can continue to live their lives feeling more independent. And as for children, as long as a child has two parents who love him or her, it really doesn't matter what their outward status is.

Answer 5

Our Judeo-Christian ethic tells us that if we are going to have children, then we need to be married, notwithstanding adoption.  Here in Utah, EVEYONE is married and puts top priority on the family.  I'm 47 and have been single all my life.  Yes, it helps me focus on my own goals and life learnings.  I would like to marry tho, for love.  s*x is of second importance.

Answer 6

I don't think the single status will be a lasting way of the future but right now it seems to be.  People who are single don't have strong family ties or have a deep sense of where they belong.

When pockets of People who don't marry and have children arise, they simply die out as there is no one to carry on their name, reputation, and ideals.  When entire nations begin to live that way, the entire nation falters and fails.

As goes the family, so goes the nation.  It may be the way of the future for a little while but it won't last.  It will die out with the individual.  When the one dies, the culture will die.  All that will be left is the story but who will remember the story?  

Without family no one will be dedicated to carrying on the culture.  Friends will only do it if it is convenient to them and most of the time, your story isn't important enough for acquainences and friends to carry on but family will usually carry pictures of you in their pocket and explain to future generations, this was your grandma.  I still have pictures of my great grandparents on both sides.  Feels good.

Having family is a way to fame without doing anything more than raising children.    Unless you are a famous writer, celebrity, politician when you're dead, no one will much care or remember and your values will die with you.

Single life will never be a lasting way of the future.  Holding family together and having a safe place to belong will last.  Religion or no.  Cultures where men habitually abandon the family are cultures that don't last long. If people can't handle the responsibility of family, they can't usually handle the responsibility of good government either.

By the way, I'm a liberal and so was Henry David Thorou...great family man.  Most good family men are liberals.  Statistics show more conservatives divorce than liberals.  Google it.

Answer 7

I'm young but more then anything in the world I want to find marriage someday and have a children, wats the point of having a good career with money if you can't share the glory with people you really care for and love ? you wind up a loner, and yea u have money, but money is not the key to happiness...true love is. At least in my opinion, but I'm not saying focusing on your career shouldn't matter but at least eventually find a balance to have all the good things out of life and not just one. I rather have a family with people I know love me, then have money any day.  

Answer 8

I can see that happening, too. It is my lifestyle, now, I live seperately from my girlfreind, and though we are exclusive to each other, we find that we rarely argue, and really enjoy our time together when we are. We have more time to focus on our personal goals, and still share important things and can talk more objectivly about issues, as freinds, rather than picking at each other. She has grown children, and is free to visit them, when she cares to, And though I like them, I dont have to be their Dad, and they know I am looking out for her.

A  general population reduction world wide, is important, too, I believe. Our race is not in danger of extinction, except FROM overpopulation. and the stress on our planet that is created by that. I see no reason to fear this lifestyle, we need to adapt to what is best for all of us. The "go forth and multipy" mentality was manufactured by the church to create a better tax and tithing base, anyway. The days of Faulted Organized religion are on their way out, and More of an Earth based Spirituality is On the forefront, I belive.