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What's the point of not getting married?
I'm supposed to give a controversial, persuasive speech in my public speaking class and I chose marriage as a topic. More specifically "why you should remain unmarried", not necessarily single, but unmarried. Originally this was my view, but since doing research for my speech I can't come up with a good reason to not marry. I understand the divorce rate has gone through the roof since the 60s and more people today are staying unmarried, but divorce isn't something to be afraid of. As far as I see it, in a clean non-strenuous or abrasive case, divorce divides possessions and children equally amongst the couple. But, if you remain unmarried and it's time to pull the plug on the relationship then who gets what? How do you decide who keeps the house or gets the espresso maker? More importantly, the children. People argue (mainly men) that divorces are unjust and unfair. Leaving most of everything if not everything to the female counterpart. But let's face it, if a man loses his case, his house, the espresso maker and all of his money it's probably because he deserved it. Men are more likely to do something stupid then women are. I know this because I'm a man. So consider a clean, easy divorce when you answer my question.
Also, what confuses about this entire ordeal is there are organizations that are looking for alternatives to marriage where you get the same exact benefits as a married couple without that piece of paper from the state or church stating that you are actually married. What the heck is the point???
So, help me out here. I'm looking for a few tangible reasons to remain unmarried. If you can take it further and give me reasons to get married that would be great as well. Remember the word "tangible". I'm not looking for answers like, "Because he/she is your soul mate." or "Fate brings people together". I want cold hard facts.
Thank you
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's quite obvious is you take the time to actually consider reality and ignore this delusional romance that has been thrown on men and women for centuries. As a person who is HARDCORE ANTI-MARRIAGE, I'll tell you the reasons why it's better to not be married:
1. Human beings are not a monogamous species. Evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology have proven that human beings were not designed to stay with the same partner for a lifetime. Very VERY few organisms in the animal kingdom have one sexual partner for a lifetime. The overwhelming majority, human beings included, are adapted to have multiple sexual partners. This doesn’t have to do with any kind of abstract morality. Rather, genetic research has isolated the genes that monogamous animals have. Human beings do not have those genes at all. Rather, human beings have to go against what they were genetically adapted to do (have multiple sexual partners) in order to maintain a monogamous artificial relationship like marriage. Marriage is just an artificial institution that goes against what people naturally want.
2. Some people don’t believe in religion. They don’t believe that extramarital intercourse will have negative consequences in the afterlife.
3. Even in a “clean divorce”, women usually receive more material assets than they worked for. For example, a man might earn 65% of the household income working the same number of hours as his wife. She will still get at least 50% (if not more) in a divorce. That’s unfair because she is getting stuff that she never worked for. Also, that doesn’t factor in attorney fees. In a clean divorce, they are a few thousand. In a contested divorce (where they argue a lot because the woman wants more than her fair share), the attorney fees can be astronomical $50,000 and up. Don’t try to tell me that the man “deserves it”. There have been many cases where the man was fine, but it happened to him anyway.
4. The benefits of a good marriage do not outweigh the risks of a heavily contested divorce. Simply put, you loose a heck of a lot more money in a contested divorce than you gain in a good marriage. Since risk outweighs reward, it is better to avoid marriage entirely.
5. You aren’t responsible for paying the person’s medical bills if he/she dies. If you are married however, then you do have to pay the bills.
6. If you cohabitate and try to keep your assets separate from one another, you have a lot more financial autonomy.
7. Men can have the most important benefits of marriage (sex, kids, and companionship) without marriage. This makes life a hell of a lot easier for them since there is great beauty in simplicity.
8. Marriage is an antiquitated sign of respect that nobody takes seriously anymore. Sure, 100 years ago when people were hardcore about religion, it was serious business. But nobody takes marriage seriously anymore. Why sign a risky legal contract for a BS institution that isn’t necessary for social status?
- tony_le12Lv 51 decade ago
well, seem like people like though of following the old tradition. Married, family, children, a house with a white picket fence with a dog run around. But no one thinking seem to think it is required lot of patient and hard work. Problems arrive when come down to patient and hard work, they are backing out. On top of that, the grass also seem to be greener on the other side of th fence so that is not help out either.
Not all divorced are men fault but men will normally the one whom got the blame for. Married normally come from women idea more than men. We men we like thing simple way. Good luck searching the asnwer
- ErikaLv 44 years ago
the concept-approximately marriage is going lower back to the classic international the place it replaced right into a transaction between a guy and his bride's father, so as that the husband in actuality took over possession of the girl now that she replaced into sufficiently old to offer infants. basically very these days has the belief of marriage become linked with romantic love or dedication, that's why it is breaking down.
- 1 decade ago
eventually you'd probably get married but I rather not because sometimes Money gets in the way like with your family, then there is work, all is just too much. Id rather be alone without any problems, no kids to worry about, and be with who ever I want whenever I want.