Courting Disaster
Marriage and Culture
A Courting Disaster
Coontz, S. (2005). Marriage a history: How love conquered marriage
It took only 25 years to undo the homemaker/breadwinner marriage system that took 150 years to perfect. Some people say that the sixties and seventies started a new marital system for the better, and some think it was the downfall of society. Divorce rated exploded, premarital sex was normal, having babies out of wedlock, and the gender roles diminished. One view of this transformation is that it was an enlightenment of freedom, but to me personally, those actions are not worthy of bragging rights. I believe that no one should judge others for their personal actions, but people should take responsibility for themselves. I do not like the changes that were made; I wish I could go back and bring my family the fifties.
In the seventies everyone protested everything. Feminists were calling homemakers “servants” and “breeders” and requesting artificial wombs to grow babies because it was unfair that woman had to carry children. To me that is just insane! Yes women have to be pregnant, menstruate, and give birth, but to me that is liberating and empowering. Not degrading and insulting. No man could go through what women have to. There were also protests for gay rights, the war, and “radical” ideas. Most of the issues that were brought up to the public in the seventies I totally stand behind. But it is the extremists that are leading them.
Men and women went through serious changes in the sixties and seventies. I found it interesting that men also felt trapped in the fifties lifestyle. I really never thought of them as feeling such. The men had many responsibilities just like the woman had. The man had to bring everything home and the woman had to put it to good use. When the amount of women in the work place is increasing exponentially every year, a stir up in the family home is going to happen. Women began working, becoming educated, and not as interested
A Courting Disaster
Coontz, S. (2005). Marriage a history: How love conquered marriage
It took only 25 years to undo the homemaker/breadwinner marriage system that took 150 years to perfect. Some people say that the sixties and seventies started a new marital system for the better, and some think it was the downfall of society. Divorce rated exploded, premarital sex was normal, having babies out of wedlock, and the gender roles diminished. One view of this transformation is that it was an enlightenment of freedom, but to me personally, those actions are not worthy of bragging rights. I believe that no one should judge others for their personal actions, but people should take responsibility for themselves. I do not like the changes that were made; I wish I could go back and bring my family the fifties.
In the seventies everyone protested everything. Feminists were calling homemakers “servants” and “breeders” and requesting artificial wombs to grow babies because it was unfair that woman had to carry children. To me that is just insane! Yes women have to be pregnant, menstruate, and give birth, but to me that is liberating and empowering. Not degrading and insulting. No man could go through what women have to. There were also protests for gay rights, the war, and “radical” ideas. Most of the issues that were brought up to the public in the seventies I totally stand behind. But it is the extremists that are leading them.
Men and women went through serious changes in the sixties and seventies. I found it interesting that men also felt trapped in the fifties lifestyle. I really never thought of them as feeling such. The men had many responsibilities just like the woman had. The man had to bring everything home and the woman had to put it to good use. When the amount of women in the work place is increasing exponentially every year, a stir up in the family home is going to happen. Women began working, becoming educated, and not as interested