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As I was sitting in the lunch room studying and enjoying some tortilla and chicken soup, I overheard a conversation that made me take notice. It wasn't so much the topic of conversation, but the person saying it and the words being said.
Girl: "Well, my husband said...last year in high school."
Deduction skills tell us that this female is probably not a girl, not yet a woman around the age of 18 or 19. What floored me and continues to floor me is that in Montana, or so it seems from my observations and research, you graduate high school and get married. I'm not joking here kids. It's true true true that most of the people I meet have been married already by the age of 21. Some are even on their seconds! This idea has to be rooted in something.
Science teaches us to look at things and use the scientific method and make findings. My Sociology class teaches me to use theories already studied to help answer my questions. I guess the clearest question I have right now is...
WHY?
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What's wrong with being on a second marriage?
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The answer to your question... because.
See... that IS very interesting. Rural Iowa is similar in the early marriage deal... but not quite that early. Then they start popping the babies out almost right away too. I think it is bizarre! I feel like I got married so so young and that was 22. I can't imagine right after high school! Post up any conclusions you come to! :)
Justin Here:
I don't have any refrences to provide, but I heard that the time in which one marries isn't really totally determined by meeting the "right" person, but more of the time in life when they meet a suitable person. A person may think that (s)he cannot marry until college is over with and their life is started so the ones that they meet beforehand will not be the "one" unless they can hold out until college is over with for that person. Likewise, it could be that in rural areas like Montanna the most accepted time to get married is around 18 or after high school, but also in postmodern societies we don't have hardly any desire to sacrifice our happiness for others so they eventually fail and hence, divorce.
BTW, I heard in parenting class that the national average for divorce is like 75% now! Isn't that crazy!
All you married people out there... don't get divorced. Find your happiness in the happiness of your spouse and see if the other preson will do the same. Sometimes, one person has to bend more than the other initally at first. We have to get over our postmodernism self-addiction. It's killing the family, and as Ravi Zacharias puts it... if the family unit fails, history fails. The family was the first institution created by God for us, to keep us strong. Did anybody see Cinderella Man? Well I just did a week ago. It took me a little while to watch it since the title is a little unmanly, but it was awesome! The way that Russel Crowe and Renee Zellwegger acted out the family unit in that movie was inspiring! She was so supportive of him through the hard times and he sacrificed so much to keep his family together. Tearjerker...
That was just so good to see.
- Justin
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