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Originally Posted by Skybird
(...)still until and short after WWI. I people change partners quicker today than the ebb and flow are changing , this only shows again that the institution of "family" is under attack from many sides, massively. Couples breaking up so easily like it is often oday show me only that they never should have married and raise children at all.(...)
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Now, this is just a theory, but I don't think the institutions of "family" and "marriage" are losing points in the ranking of hot stuff because of a multi-sided conspiracy.
"Short after WWI", national women's suffrage became a reality in the US. A bit later in the UK. This alone is probably the factor that changed reality the most, with women taking an officially-recognized publicly-active role in society and being put, at least on paper, on the same level as men.
You know what this leads to because we're seeing it today. Women work, often in the same positions as men and with the same responsibilities. Men undergo the difficult process of becoming "house animals" to compensate or keep working and wait until dinner cooks itself. Plus, if a woman is now tired of her husband she can just tell him to sod off and law will be on her side.
In fact, "no-fault divorce" didn't even exist as such in the US until the second decade of the 20th century.
All I'm saying is that, while I don't deny that certain political groups, or any other pressure groups, might be interested in undermining a traditional structure that is often held as a flag by other political (and religious) groups, I think the fact that divorce wasn't even allowed without charges and that women didn't have the option to access it
might have something to do with it.
"Couples breaking up so easily like it is often oday show me only that they never should have married and raise children at all."
I suppose you don't believe that people instantly became reckless about marrying after WWI. Couples that weren't meant to be have always existed, and in fact they existed more before WWI than after. Just take a look at the average age for marriages and you'll see that most took place when the girls didn't have a clue, even less so a choice.
The difference is that today if a couple doesn't work you break it, you don't just pretend it works.