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The Slow Death of a Marriage Culture
Angela Donnell
A distressing number of children in this nation will go to bed tonight without the participation of both a mother and father in an important family ritual: reading a bedtime story, saying nighttime prayers, and being tucked in with reassuring goodnight kisses. This experience is more and more often a solo act for one reason: the slow death of a marriage culture. It is being replaced by a culture of divorce and illegitimacy, each of which now exists, in equal proportion to their opposites. Society has had to swallow the fact that divorce has become the answer to problems of stress and frustration in marriage, and is being made easier due to no-fault divorce procedures. The union of marriage needs to be taken more seriously and a reform on the current laws needs to be enacted. A divorce reform would clearly define marriage as a lifelong commitment between a man and a woman and require more pre and post marital counseling. It......

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