Sixty percent of marriages in the United States end in divorce. So ask yourself, what is happening to the family? I found this statistic appalling. My parents got married at the age of sixteen, and twenty-one years later they are still together and very happy. This past summer my boyfriend of four years proposed to me and I chose this social problem as my topic for my analysis paper so I could understand why so …
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…truly. I think too many people are getting married too quickly for the moment and for the wrong reasons. However, it's impossible to predict how each marriage will turn out. Take my parents for example, they were young, and got married because my mother was pregnant with me. This is a prime example of a marriage that shouldn't have lasted, but it did. All I can say is marry for love and make it work.