Our country has made divorce and couples living together fairly acceptable among society. However accepting these does not mean that there are not consequences to their outcomes.
Many teachers and child caregivers will agree that children from broken homes or single parent homes struggle more with academic and emotional troubles over children from two parent homes.
While this is common talk among teachers, I never realized that it was also advertised publicly.
I was recently reading an article from a lady in Washington DC. She commented on the posters and billboards throughout the city that were promoting marriage. She listed some of the following phrases from the advertisements.
“Married people earn more money.” “Marriage works.” “Kids with married parents do better in school.”
She also discussed how the government has spent millions of dollars on this campaign for marriage.
I agree with marriage. I do think that children from happy two parent homes are healthier and more emotionally stable. Therefore they excel in school. However the key to my statement above was the term happy.
Just because two people are married does not mean that they have a healthy relationship. Some people live in an abusive relationship. Others are miserably married. Therefore I do not think that being married solves the problem.
I believe that learning how to have healthy relationships with those around you is more important than obtaining the marriage certificate. Instead of promoting marriage maybe we should begin by promoting values, morals, and love and compassion for ourselves and others. We need to teach children how to handle emotions and how to get along in a world of diverse people.
Once this is accomplished, happy healthy marriages will involuntarily be created. People will want to marry and stay married because they will be able to function as a team rather than on selfish terms.
Emotional and Physical Affairs