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Monday, December 6, 2010

"A piece of paper that costs a lot of money to change."

Posted by Renee

I had to stop by and post this from NPR

Unmarried With Kids: A Shift In The Working Class Brad Wilcox from the National Marriage Project is cited in the article.

"" lot of people, I think, see marriage as a piece of paper," says Mellissa. "A piece of paper that costs a lot of money to change." She laughs and explains that she means divorce."

Brilliant!

When people refer to 'the piece of paper' argument I really do sympathize, it may seem worthless as hyper inflated currency. We trust a dollar bill to have an attached value to it, just as we should trust marriage to have a meaning behind it also.

And this quote from another woman...

"I want to have that beautiful gown, and all the family, and toasts with champagne,"

They get so focused on the wedding, they forget the being married part. It's a marriage, not a party permit.

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