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0 pointsnicholassmith12y ago0 comments

Sure, marriage does seem to be down amongst the people I know in long term relationships but that mostly seems to be (in my circle) down to apathy about the concept, as they deem it pointless. "Who needs paper and a £10k party to show your love?" sort of thing.

There's a big melting pot of changes in our society, and I do think the internet has played a part as has changing opinions on religion, finance and wealth and so on.

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pitt198012y ago

I don't have links on the tip of my fingers, but my impression is that family formation among young people is down, and its not simply a matter of symantics

I'm not even a believer that that's necessarly a terrible thing

but I do think its a real trend, not just otherwise committed people deciding that they don't need a piece of paper

I think internet == food is the right analogy, too much of certain types of internet usage seems obviously not healthy for you, I think as a culture we should make efforts to make sure that message is widely dessiminated

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