Marriage Then and Now

Taking a look back to marriages of the 70s and then forward to the marriages of today, Lisa Belkin gives interesting statistics such as how many of us can't make gravy from scratch (two-thirds of us) and how couples are approaching parenting today.

"The young men and women coming into adulthood right now consistently tell researchers that they are determined to make their marriages into partnerships and to not default to traditional gender roles at the expense of equality. (And hopefully invest less of their own identities in their children.)"
Source: Lisa Belkin. "The Marrying Kind." NYTimes.com. 3/22/2010

Do you think your marriage is different from your parents' marriage? How do you define marriage?

Marriage Then and Now originally appeared on About.com Marriage on Friday, April 2nd, 2010 at 02:25:20.

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