What will be the future of marriage (in the US)?

Well the bible states that in the end times that they will be giving in marriage. So marriage will not go away. And each generation is waxing worse and worse. So, I think that a lot of marriages will be corrupt. Such is an example of gay marriage. Marriage is between a man and a woman. God ordained Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

Well the bible states that in the end times that they will be giving in marriage. So marriage will not go away. And each generation is waxing worse and worse. So, I think that a lot of marriages will be corrupt. Such is an example of gay marriage. Marriage is between a man and a woman. God ordained Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

Yeah I agree with you, marriage will be rare in the future. It'll be more of an open marriage (where both men and women agree to date whoever they like and fkuc whoever they find desirable) That's my personal theory.

Yeah I agree with you, marriage will be rare in the future. It'll be more of an open marriage (where both men and women agree to date whoever they like and fkuc whoever they find desirable) That's my personal theory.

great question. i've been wondering the same thing. the way things are trending, marriage, if it exists at all in the future, will be nothing like it is today. marriage is already nothing like it was in our grandparents' days. same sex marriage, for example, would have been unthinkable back then. today it is common place. also in our grandparents day divorces were much harder to get. you needed to prove grounds for a divorce. today any judge will grant anyone a divorce simply for the asking. in the future it'll become even easier to end a marriage. we may see things like online divorces where you just log on, type in your names and get your divorce instantly for minimal cost. we might even see things like temporary marriages which expire automatically after a certain number of years. but mostly we're likely to see the definition of marriage expand. it will likely become legal to have multiple spouses, multiple husbands and wives. we might see entire groups of people, both males and females, all "married" together. we may see the legalization of marriage between blood relations, e.g. first cousins, siblings, aunts or uncles with nieces and nephews, perhaps even to include children and parents or grandparents. and, most importantly, unlike today, the concept of marriage may become entirely independent of sexual relations between the "spouses" and may have nothing at all to do with sex between the parties or with anyone else. it may become strictly a legal contract between consenting individuals governing inheritance rights, property rights, insurance coverage and the like. the idea of sex and childbearing between the parties may never even come into consideration and the concept of "adultery" may become entirely irrelevant. there is, of course, a major philosophical problem with expanding the definition of marriage so broadly. when a word or, in this case, an "institution" expands so vastly to mean anything you want, then it starts to mean nothing. it loses it's special nature. it's like when you award an oscar to a select few actors or actresses for outstanding performances each year, it's a special honor and recognition. suppose instead you gave an oscar to every member of the motion picture academy each year. you could argue that the best performances are still receiving their awards, but it's no longer a special recognition. the award would mean nothing because everyone gets one. unfortunately that's what we're seeing today with the changing and expanding definition of marriage. it is losing it's special nature of a life-long union and commitment between a man and a woman. now it's just a piece of paper which nobody takes seriously because either party can end the union at will. it no longer involves any commitment. and marriage is no longer between a man and a woman. soon it will expand to include anyone or as many persons as you want, any of whom can enter the "marriage" or leave it at will. there certainly will be nothing "special" about marriage anymore. it's meaning is quickly eroding away to nothing. and that is the reason i'm always saying marriage has become obsolete and it's time for society to do away with it. i would rather the institution be dissolved completely than to watch it degenerate into a totally unrecognizable monster.

Some of the modern thinkers of our day have said that marriage will one day become extinct. They've predicted marriage will slowly but surely be thought of as old-fashioned and unnecessary despite its current popularity and existence throughout human history. Perhaps their predictions are based on the changes in the way society views love and marriage. During the 1960's, society showed us a picture of love somewhat unfamiliar to American culture at that time. There is a good chance that again people's perspective about marriage will change. Women are making more money in today's society, part of this having to do with that more men were hurt by the recession than women and also partly it has been found that women are now finding that they must work harder to put food on the table in relation to so many men finding themselves out-of-work. This trend of women working more has found itself taking an effect on women who are not married and more and more are looking at their careers rather than marriage and choose to just live with a guy rather than marrying them. Part of this is also because opinions have changed within he last 10 or 20 years about people living together out of wedlock. It has been predicted that more and more people will start to choose not to get married which is not a bad thing because of divorce rates have been found to be very high due to so many women requesting divorce from their husbands, especially within the last 10 years, because of financial problems.

Some of the modern thinkers of our day have said that marriage will one day become extinct. They've predicted marriage will slowly but surely be thought of as old-fashioned and unnecessary despite its current popularity and existence throughout human history. Perhaps their predictions are based on the changes in the way society views love and marriage. During the 1960's, society showed us a picture of love somewhat unfamiliar to American culture at that time. There is a good chance that again people's perspective about marriage will change. Women are making more money in today's society, part of this having to do with that more men were hurt by the recession than women and also partly it has been found that women are now finding that they must work harder to put food on the table in relation to so many men finding themselves out-of-work. This trend of women working more has found itself taking an effect on women who are not married and more and more are looking at their careers rather than marriage and choose to just live with a guy rather than marrying them. Part of this is also because opinions have changed within he last 10 or 20 years about people living together out of wedlock. It has been predicted that more and more people will start to choose not to get married which is not a bad thing because of divorce rates have been found to be very high due to so many women requesting divorce from their husbands, especially within the last 10 years, because of financial problems.