[多项选择]You’ve read an article in a magazine predicting that marriage will disappear in the foreseeable future. Do you agree or disagree with this point of view

参考答案:Topic: Do you agree or disagree that marriage will disappear in the foreseeable future.
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An incredible percentage of marriages in the world end in divorce, and the rate is continuing to rise as well. What on earth is happening to cause such a phenomenon Will it get close to A00 per cent one day Some give the gloomy prediction that family, as the basic building block of society, will disappear in future. I am not arguing that marriage is in a perfect state, but such worries have certainly gone too far.
People get married for different reasons: Some get married because they believe they have found the love of their life and want to commit to each other; some take the matrimony as a way to have children and enjoy the joy of rearing them up; some others do so out of insecurity, a need to find companionship. Anthropologists conclude that the historical and traditional assumption in the concept of family is that it is an institution that exists as being essential for the continuation of creating, nourishing and perpetuating life within a protective society. There would be many other reasons for people to choose to tie the knot. However progressed our society may be, as long as these reasons exist, so will be marriage.
Be that as it may, I think conservatives are right about one thing: if the institution of marriage is going to survive, it does need defending. Marriage is becoming increasingly irrelevant in today’s society, and those who value it as a tradition are going to be more and more hard-pressed to perpetuate it.
Imagine the scenario of a future society without marriage. The weakening of the institution of marriage will have devastating effect upon children, who grow up to be Morns and Dads themselves. The rather pathetic attempt to prevent divorce by simply not getting married and then pretending that everything is "just fine" is self-defeating. One cannot really fool one’s conscience, can they
The question we must ask ourselves is: "Just what kind of social values do I really want to practice, preserve and perpetuate for myself and my children and their children and their children/