Andrey Merkulov. Family (№ 424179)

I am not saying that families are disappearing, I am saying that the role and significance of marriage has radically changed. In developed countries with a high level of income of the population, the family has finally lost its main and only function - a means of survival, and now it is only a spiritual union of a man and a woman, based on nothing but mutual sympathy. This is not a family in the classical sense, where you “pledge to love until the grave,” where “the wife follows her husband, no matter what happens,” where you must “honor, respect and forgive” not because you want to be with a person, but because you are a member married to him. There is nothing like this anymore. Not to love because you are married, but to be married because you love. The modern family is based on fundamentally different prerequisites ...