Seems the US Census Bureau recently released data that more American women are saying no to marriage. This prima facie statement ambiguously indicates that 51% of women are living without a spouse when, in actuality, it also factors in women that have lovers/boyfriends/partners into that figure as being single. Legally this would be correct, however, it misleads its readers to believe that more women are choosing to live alone – which is an unlike phenomenon in an age of co-habitation without matrimony and the distorted media perception of the ideal heterosexual marriage.
Hypothetically speaking, if more women are choosing to live in un-wedded bliss, they should be commended for making that decision without caving to the social stigma or indulging society’s expectations of what is acceptable and not. Why should they have to split their family’s property in half at the time of separation? Why should they pay for family support when the relationship has gone awry? Why should it be fair to split your hard earned money with someone that had probably been smooching off your crappy income for years and now they want spousal support while they subsist with their new gf/bf? Well, that’s why unmarried women should be commended for making such a sound financial decision of not entering into the institution of marriage.
Lets be clear that married people are proffered certain tax breaks (a form of encouragement from the federal government to procreate homogeneously), reduced costs for medical services, and less ostracized stares at social gatherings.
Despite the benefits of marriages, it is further proof that you have membership in an antiquated, stagnant organization that serves to remind you that you are either socially inadequate or physically undesirable because you are not a card carrying member. That’s the sourly crap that is subconsciously infused into our daily dosage of TV watching and pop culture. Not disregarding the biological practicality of procreation, but do we really need another waifish celebrity wannabe?
Lets praise the women that took deliberate action to strike a balance between their financial independence and dogma of marriage. Next year, hopefully, more women will choose to divorce from the pressure to marry, marry, marry.