According to this article, 51% of women in the United States live without a spouse. Upon reading the title, I thought "oh ok...well, they must want to be married and are 'looking'". Not so.
According to one of the single women interviewed:
"I get to make the choices myself about where I live, how I live, how I decorate my house," she says.
I noticed one thing about that sentence..."I" is used 4 times! It seems this is the common thinking of today's independent women.
From a demographer:
"There used to be this saying, '22 skidoo,' that is, when young women got to be the age of 22 they were expected to go off and get married and be in another household," says William Frey, a demographer at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. "That's a long time in the past."
In the past? I'll agree; it sure does seem that way. Is that supposed to be a good thing? Are we a more "enlightened" people because we don't subject women to the "menial" task of getting married young and having children? I don't think so. The world sees freedom and opportunities. I see 26 year olds who act like they are 15 in terms of emotional maturity. All one needs to do is pick up a copy of Cosmo (not something I'd advise) and flip through the pages. Those pages are filled with instant gratification, looking out for #1, meaningless relationships with the opposite sex (all in the name of "having a good time"), and a carefree life. This is the new and improved way of life? I think not. Being a wife and mother teaches you to think of someone other than yourself. God has used marriage to teach me time and again that it's not all about ME. And I feel certain that He'll continue to teach this lesson to me when/if He blesses us with children.
**I don't get involved in many "controversial" type issues and won't post much about them. I believe there is value in debating but I want my blog to mostly revolve around homemaking and being a helpmeet to my husband. But this article really stuck out to me when I read it, so I decided to post my opinion.
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3 comments:
Life is not all about me??? What?? hahahaha Good post!!
Great post. As a 23 year old wife and mother, I agree that being married and raising children makes us look beyond ourselves and our needs. It's hard, but so rewarding.
Did you check in to their ideea of single? My sister also wrote me about this and the 51% included among other "single women"..women who's husbands were away from home serving in the military and such...so the actual figure is way lower than 51%. I cannot remember now the other ways they deceived us into thinking married people were single but there were many. Thanks for sharing with us.
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