Marriage and
families
Nowadays, people have different opinions and behaviour about families
and marriage than they used to have fifty years ago.
These days, in Europe and USA at least, the nature of those institutions
is more permissive and open. You can find more easily a single-parent family,
half-brothers or step-sisters than not many years ago. Also, it is more common
that families live spread out and no necessarily in the same town or country.
And, definitely, they are shorter. Couples have, on average, one or two kids
and do not share the same house with grandparents, uncles etc. as it used to be
normal in the past.
Another important change is that traditional marriages by any religious
rite or habit have fallen. In some way, we can say that mayors and councillors
work as a kind of priests. More couples go to the council to get married
instead to some church.
Personally speaking, though, for me, the biggest challenge that our
society faces these days is to allow that people of the same sex can get
married without getting into trouble. Furthermore, in some countries they are
allowed to bring up children, and most citizens agree, seeing that as a symptom
of freedom.
To summarize, in my opinion, these changes mean that our mind needs to develop
and to be able to become more human and less animal. The freer women and men
are, the happier they will be. The more permissive they are, the better society
we will be building.
By José M. Glez Gutiérrez
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