Prologue to Marriage and Family
Christina and James met in school and have been dating for over five years. For the beyond two years, they have been living respectively in a townhouse they bought together. While Christina and James were sure about their choice to go into a responsibility, (for example, a 20-year contract)
they are uncertain to go into marriage. The couple had numerous conversations about marriage and concluded that it just didn’t appear to be essential. Was it not just a piece of paper? Didn’t half of all relationships end in separate?
Neither Christina nor James had seen a lot of progress with marriage while growing up. Christina was raised by a single parent. Her folks never wedded, and her dad has had little contact with the family since she was a baby. Christina and her mom lived with her maternal grandma, who frequently filled in as a proxy parent. James experienced childhood in a two-parent family until age seven, when his folks separated. He lived with his mom for a couple of years, and afterward with his mom and her sweetheart until he left for school. James stayed close with his dad who remarried and had a child with his new spouse.
As of late, Christina and James have been pondering having youngsters and the subject of marriage has reemerged. Christina likes the possibility of her kids experiencing childhood in a customary family, while James is worried about conceivable conjugal issues not too far off and unfortunate results for the youngsters should that happen.
At the point when they imparted these worries to their folks, James’ mother was unyielding that the couple ought to get hitched. Regardless of having been separated and having a live-in sweetheart of 15 years, she accepts that kids are in an ideal situation when their folks are hitched. Christina’s mother accepts that the couple ought to do anything they desire however adds that it would “be great” assuming they marry. Christina and James’ companions told them, wedded or not wedded, they would in any case be a family.
Christina and James’ situation might be muddled, however it is illustrative of the existences of numerous youthful couples today, especially those in metropolitan regions (Useem, 2007). Measurements Canada (2012) reports that the quantity of unmarried, customary regulation couples became by 35% somewhere in the range of 2001 and 2011
to make up a sum of 16.7% of all families in Canada. Cohabitating, however unwed, couples represent 16.7% of all families in Canada. Some might in all likelihood never decide to marry (Jayson, 2008). With less couples wedding, the customary Canadian family structure is turning out to be more uncommon. By and by, albeit the level of customary wedded couples has declined as an extent, everything being equal, at 67% of all families, it is still by a long shot the overwhelming family structure.
