One Man, One Woman: One Happy Marriage! Even while the Western nations are forgetting what marriage truly is, you can have the happy marriage God intended you to have. The truth about marriage isn’t found in any nation’s legislation; it is found in the sound principles for Christian marriage contained in your Bible! Use these principles to make your unhappy marriage happy, or your happy marriage even happier!
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By Richard F. Ames
or many in today’s society, marriage just isn’t what it used to be! Couples in the United States and many other countries are marrying later in life than ever before… and these couples pursuing marriage now include male-male and female-female pairs. A few at the extremes are even exploring sologamy and polygamy—one-person and three-or-moreperson “marriages.” Most of us today roll our eyes and scoff at the idea that our nations might ever embrace such arrangements, but let’s not forget that the idea of same-sex “marriage” seemed ridiculous—even unthinkable—to most people just a decade or two ago!
12 Tomorrow’s World | May-June 2019
The Pew Foundation recently reported that the average age at which Americans first marry has reached an all-time high: age 30 for men, and age 28 for women (“8 Facts about love and marriage in America,” Pew FacTank, February 13, 2019). Remarriage is also on the rise: In 2013, 23 percent of married people had been married at least once before, compared with just 13 percent in 1960 (ibid.). In the midst of all this, divorce has increased among older Americans. Since 1990, the divorce rate for people over 50 has roughly doubled—and has nearly tripled for people over 65 (“Led by Baby Boomers, divorce rates climb for America’s 50+ population,” Pew FacTank, March 9, 2017). Clearly, the trends and statistics are not encouraging for marriage.
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