If you were to take the complexity of the problems in our world today, it would take days and days to tackle the breakdown of poverty, the ‘growing’ underclass and the lack of cohesiveness in our society today. I’ve even seen papers written about the fact that the breakdown of our person-to-person relations is in direct proportion to our growing technologies.
It began, in essence, with the industrial revolution as we abandoned small town ties and the bonds created by sharing traditions and needs with rural communities. The transition from rural to urban diminished those ties and the transition from urban to city and to online communities continues to stress and fracture our connections with other people.
It’s very common nowadays to do business and work for people you never meet, face-to-face or even talk to on the telephone. Families, once a very close-knit and living close together, spread further and further with parents living in one state, grandparents in another and adult children in still another. Those ties that held us together are not gone, but they also do not seem to be as front and center as they used to be.
So, is marriage the key to improving our society? Marriage is statistically known for creating a more stable environment both for the marriage partners and their children. Marriage partners can also provide stability for the rest of the extended family as well. This is a source of great strength within families and can help keep together families that might otherwise have drifted apart.
But it’s not just the institution of marriage that is needed to save our society, but our own personal views and choices that need to be reconsidered. We need to put our families first. When we value our families, when we value each other as individuals and when we value our communities, all of them – only then can we promote the values of marriage within our society.
So yes, marriage can be a key to a better society, but only if we individually make the choice to value our society, our families and ourselves more and to invest in those values. What do you believe is needed for a better society?
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