Marriage changes how other people see them, but it also changes how individuals see themselves.…
As stated in our text, various factors can bind married couples together, such as economic interdependencies, legal, social and moral constraints, relationship, and amongst other things. In the recent years some of these factors have diminished their strengths. The modern generation sees marriage in a different perspective altogether. Individuals today feel they are stable independently, they do not need to rely on their spouse for emotional or financial support. Many are career driven and soar to conquer their dreams over settling down with a family. Such untraditional views have increased divorce rates.…
Change, one of the most natural things guaranteed at birth, can have either a positive or negative effect on life. It is inevitable that life will change and that people must then change to adapt. Though there are many factors of life that produce a drastic transformation, marriage and the effect it has on the people involved is diverse in how the married cope. J. Robert Lennon reveals just how marriage can affect life in “When I Married, I Became an old Woman.”…
As it states in the book Life Span Development, marriage was once viewed as an end point to adult development. Individuals believed they created the live they dreamt. Landing a career, finding someone they loved and planning a life with them. Today many people are staying single for a longer period of time. The book states that if a person has a…
Note: Every “0”is a zero (number). The lines between “information” and “center” and “center” and “view” are underscores.…
In Linda J. Waite’s pro-marriage article “Marriage Matters,” she sheds statistical light on the outweighing positive, as well as the negative, aspects of marriage. From her view, there are four outcomes which are directly affected from marriage opposing including: health, wealth, intimacy with your spouse, and, of course, the children. These four topics are the areas most affected (positive or negatively) by living single, married, cohabitating, or rebuilt lifestyles.…
Marriage matters. If marriage did not matter, would it even be considered when growing up? Today, I feel that the word “marriage” is often misunderstood, and that’s why I am intrigued by any research that has been done on this topic. Like most, I believed that the divorce rate was skyrocketing. However, as I was going through my Marriage and Family book, I quickly began to realize that marriage has survived through it all due to its importance.…
Marriage’s place in the life course used to come before starting a career or even having children but, now it usually comes afterward. It was the foundation of adult life, now it seems to be the capstone. Marriage is achieved through one’s own effort rather than something to which one routinely accedes.…
There are some big differences between married and single life. Each has it's own unique problems that must be overcome while having similarities. The Decision of married vs. single should not be taken lightly. There are a lot of factors you must consider when thinking about marriage. Friendship, free time, money issues, religion, and selfishness are all issues that should be addressed when choosing your life plan.…
These convergent forces suggest that although marriage remains an important feature of adulthood, it no longer looms like Mount Everest in the landscape of the adult life course. It is more like a hill that people climb, up and down, once or twice, or bypass…
To begin with…Tax returns. Married people not only receive a higher standard deduction, they also have the option to file one of two ways. “If you are married you have the option of “married filing jointly” of “married filing separately.”. “Filing separately is like filing when you were single but many deductions and tax incentives for the government get cut in half.” (Is it better to claim single or married for taxes?). If you and your spouse decide to file a joint…
Married individuals have lower rates of alcoholism than their unmarried counterparts because they tend to offer encouragement, support, and protection from daily problems that could otherwise lead them to using alcohol and other drugs.…
Choices that concern family and marriage are sometimes during early and middle adulthood. Research shows that divorce is more common among individuals who marry during adolescence, or for people who have parents that are divorced, and for those who differ in age, attractiveness, personality, people that get divorced eventually remarry; so some children may be exposed to having two sets of families. There is also another alternative to getting married; it is called “cohabitation (Berger, 2010).” All this means is an unwed couple that lives and shares space together. The choices that people make concerning their work or career affects every aspect in their lives. It affects friends, job stress, child care, residence location, political values, and many other aspects in one’s life. Income, career longevity, achievement, recognition, satisfaction, security, and challenge are all important factors when looking or finding a job or career.…
Married people have more holidays than the single. Single people often say that they don’t have children or wives, so they don’t have to work hard and they have more spare time. The fact is opposite that married people have more opportunities to get holidays, such as birthday of child, an anniversary dinner and if a spouse or child gets sick. Single people are more likely to be asked to work on holidays. Because they are single, they don’t have a wife or children, who they could possibly have to care about.…
"Of Marriage and Single Life" considers "wives" and children (assuming his readers are male) and balances their advantages against their disadvantages in such a way that it's difficult to decide whether marriage is a good or a bad idea. Bad marriages, however, he suggests can be analyzed more easily by their effects upon the women in them.…