Traditional family life revolves around the father, mother and children, with emphasis laid on the marital status of the father and mother. For generations, this has been the pictorial depiction of the family, which has birthed the concept of families up to this point.
Marriage, like any other romantic relationship, comes with its own baggage. But unlike every other relationship, the ‘ideal marriage’ is the one that braves the storm of baggage and lasts a lifetime. While the marriage which is founded on reality brave the storm up to a certain level and calls it quits. Do not get me wrong, both are the way they are based on the realms in which they exist, so no one can be said to be perfect or wrong.
It is this split in marriages that results ultimately in divorce. Society favours the idea of marriage and that is why other options are explored and where they fail, divorce becomes the final option. So while it may look like we hear more about the final option, there were other alternatives which might have been explored.
This could beg the question of what really is the problem. The United States of America ranks 6th in the world for the highest divorce rate, as a 2019 analysis shows that while over two million people get married in a year, over seven hundred thousand divorces occur in the same year. A lot of things constitute grounds for these divorces ranging from lack of commitment, adultery, irreconcilable differences, and so on.
So, with these rates of divorces, what is the fate of the family system in the 21st century? Society relies on the family system a lot as the cradle or foundation of society. A good foundation would definitely birth a prosperous society. A faulty foundation will definitely do the opposite, and sadly, we are gunning towards the opposite presently.
Analysis suggests that children from broken homes tend to go into a crime based on a certain percentage. No matter how high or low the percentage might be, this clearly suggests that the absence of parents in the life of children constitutes serious dangers in the lives of the children, and in society at large.
Patience and understanding are our key virtues which have been grossly underrated as to their impact on healing and fixing ailing or broken relationships including in marriages. Except in extreme cases where these virtues fall short, it is advised that, for the sake of the future of society, these virtues and other ethical beliefs should be allowed to take precedence.
In extreme cases where the relationship is irreparable, 21st-century family life would still need the presence of the father and mother irrespective of their divorce status. Both parents must come together, irrespective of their differences, to present themselves as role models which the kids would have to look up to while ensuring that their presence is always in the lives of the children.
This may be a century that completely alters the idea of marriage and family given the present circumstances, but that is no excuse for the fact that just as in the days of old, the presence of parents in the life of their children does not play a greater role than just playing daddy and mommy; their presence in the lives of the children gives the society the needed assurance that tomorrow is truly secured.
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