Position Paper: "Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families."

In Coming to Terms with Americas Changing Families the author seemed to define family as any married couple. In my opinion, families are married couples with children, non just a married couple. He also talked a little about some predictions that were do early on in history. The predictions were about marriage and where it was headed. The prediction that marriage is last(p) is mind-boggling. That is what Robert Rector a representative of the Heritage Foundation had state about marriage. I find that prediction would be unassailable to believe if made today. Marriage has been around for a real long time in almost any culture. How could a practiced ceremony celebrated in almost every country be dead? Marriage is when two spate pledge one anothers love for each other in a ceremony. Marriage has been documented as far rachis as the as Roman period. Valentines Day is a pass that was created by St. Valentine. He would marry couples who were forbidden to get married, or wanted to and couldnt for other reasons. Even if back then it was not called marriage, it was a ceremony bonding two people in concert by love. There will always be something equivalent it. Look at todays modern marriage, it does not have to be only a man and a woman, same brace marriages are now legal in several states.

John Watson, a famous child psychiatrist of the early 20th century, predicted in 1928 that by the late 1970s marriage would be dead. Amitai Etzionia, sociologist, in 1977, made a prediction that by the mid-1990s there would not be any families left. How would any of us be here, would we all be the products of unwed parents? Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation states that marriage is dying and that the next ten years...

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