Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Marriage

Has anyone seen the new statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control? According to that report 40% of births were to unmarried women and only 23% of those were to unmarried teens. Wow, does this seem to suggest that as its the older women and no marriage - at least at the time of the pregnancy (guess the idea that a later marriage followed would be something of significance) - the sexual relationship has become paramount and the aspects of marriage that were of significance such as personal relationship (looking back at Hauerwas and intimacy), community (looking back at Grenz and the symbol of the marriage relationship), etc, no longer have a role in marriage and indeed culture. Remember Matzko-McCarthy from the earlier post - is this a sign of confusing romance and love? Is this a sign that consumerist beliefs have entered even this part of life - that is personal fulfillment rules?