Posted on 06/24/2008 3:32:05 PM PDT by rhema
How can anyone expect people to be married at such a young age? Does anyone actually believe that people are mature enough for marriage at 25? 30? 40? Ask anyone over fifty if they thought they were mature and intelligent at 25, I think not. A\marriage license should be like a driver’s license, people ought to be educated in the matter and should pass the test of maturity and intelligence before any such licenses should be granted. Too many morons are “married” with children who then dump the resulting products on society.
Your great grandmother married at 15. Big deal. People also lived to 50 on average back then. The rest of your point seemed more like a brag session. I’m happy for your son, but there isn’t nothing wrong with enjoying life a bit before getting the accounting degree. There’s plenty of time to work later in life and an accounting job (or any for that matter), isn’t the end-all be-all in life.
Please re-read my post. I did **NOT** write that **all** young people should end their education by the eighth grade.
I will assume that you are busy, and missed this point.
You surely are not posting what you did because you lack reading comprehension skills. And...Surely you would **never** consider creating a strawman argument.
Here’s a marriage thread where the bride and groom commit much earlier.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035831/posts
Yikes! I hope you don't think she would ever do that!
Because the kind that would, don't do it out of necessity. They do it out of malice.
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By the way, John, do you make your living directly or indirectly from the government mis-education industrial complex? ( Just wondering.)
Our marriage became stronger because we bore our early growing pangs together. Now when times get tough, we have a thirty year history of pulling together through though times to keep us hopeful.
What’s going on here is that people whose oldest children are now about twenty years old comprise the first generation of parents who themselves had open sexual lives before they married. Many of these people don’t care if their adult children are not chaste because they weren’t chaste before marriage. Even those people who regret having had sex before marriage may feel “hypocritical” telling their adult children to wait until marriage. If you don’t have to be married to have sex, most people will delay marriage. It’s time for a reverse sexual revolution.
Marriage is not between two people.
Marriage is between two people and society.
Our society is no longer a fit partner.
If you have a pre-nup, you’re not really getting married.
I’m an Industrial Chemist working in R&D.
Keep up the good work. My husband and I did likewise. Both kids got married young (out of college, but young!) and place great value on marriage. Our daughter has even had a baby while in grad school.
And her friends are all eager to marry. This generation of young women are looking for men who went to “man school” and a more traditional lifestyle than many want to believe.
I have no problem with Reagan’s divorce. But McCain’s treatment of his first wife reveals his and Cindy’s lack of moral character. Neither makes a good role model. And his desire for a reunion of his former captors who he said tortured him was bizarre.
You are absolutely correct.
Doing what? Getting tattoos? Dying his hair green? Wearing his pants below his crack? Getting herpes? Wasting 4 years learning nothing? Getting drunk? Cracking up cars? Smoking dope? Losing his virginity and possibly causing a young woman to lose hers?
Tell me?
Or.... is it much more enjoyable to be training in a sport full time during the day, and going to college at night ( part-time) to earn an accounting degree? Is becoming an Eagle Scout, being a youth leader in our church, organizing state wide dances for the church, going to Eastern Europe to work for our church for two years and learning fluent Russian, considered “enjoying life”. ?
Follow the money.
School should be viewed as an emergency measure for families that have been struck by disaster—like orphanages.
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Homeschooling is the healthiest and most natural way to rear and educate a child.
Yes, there will always be children who must be institutionalized for their education. It is a shame. We need orphanages too, but no one is saying it it the healthiest or most natural way to rear up a child.
If your son had been in public school, he’d be slowed down so that he wouldn’t get ahead of the slowest in the class. Being bored, he would start looking at the girls’ tattoos, LOL!
So that’s how you see the world, huh? You’re either a weirdo who does nothing but drugs and screw around or you become a 15 year-old college student, etc.? You’re weird.
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