Persuasive Essay On The Age Of Marriage

While sexual education is mandatory in almost all secondary schools across Australia, the level of depth at which it is taught varies throughout every school. Many highly important areas of sex ed, such as learning about consent, contraceptive options and violence in relationships, are less commonly taught in high school, with puberty typically being the prime topic taught in PDHPE lessons instead. But when we look at the increase in things such as sexual assault, sexual violence, Sexually Transmitted Infections and teenage pregnancy among today’s youth, we must wonder why such imperative subjects to educate teenagers on are discussed so minimally.

With proper education, it can help shape an individual's future; education is the foundation of the way of life today, it is needed and required everywhere in the world. Those who strive to be employed, make money, or do something great in the future has to rely on education to get them there. Education is mandatory to become an engineer, doctor, teacher, astronaut etc.; the skill required to be able to do any type of work is gained from learning the basics and having a clear understanding of it. An individual's success depends mainly on their talent and hardwork. Although we rely on education, we as well rely on that individual's strength, determination, and perseverance. Every individual are each a diamond in the rough and should be well taken care

Imagine a time where teenagers are allowed to vote on important positions or issues that could possibly define our nation’s future. The average teenager may seem responsible, but would they be able to handle the responsibility of deciding our nation’s fate in the world as well as their own. In the article, “ Takoma Park 16-year-old savors his history making moment at the polls,” Annys Shin, who writes in depth about the historical event as well as shares valued opinions of those who participated in the making of this event, exclaims that the, “ Montgomery County community [was] the nation’s first to lower the voting age from 18 to 16.” This seems to be a test to determine if the nation should lower the voting age completely. However, this test shows varying results, but majority seem to shed some light on the fact that teenagers simply should not take part in voting. The average teenagers seem too young to be mature about issues, are uninterested in what major decisions are made by the government, and are simply being used by their parentals for an extra person support their own beliefs.

Marriage is when two adults come together in love and have the love link them together as one. It means they live together and share the rest of their lives together after a marital engagement. Today marriage is not only for the adults, but the young teenagers have taken it up. It could be a drive from young love. It mostly occurs during adolescence when most teenagers start to discover themselves emotionally and sexually. The strength that comes with this young love turns some to believe they can venture into marriage. Some parents are quick to guide them on this issue. Inasmuch, as there is a great effort in guidance and counseling some teenagers still insist their way into teenage marriage. Could it be that the society is practicing poor upbringing techniques for the young people? Adolescent growth needs a lot of guidance and counseling. Some support this while others feel that they should be left to grow naturally and not be restricted to act like adults.

A survey of 14000 adults states in ‘A Guide to Family Issues: The Marriage Advantage’ that marriage was a pertinent factor contributing to happiness and satisfaction with forty percent of the married individuals being happy as opposed to 25 percent of either single or cohabiting individuals. The same study shows that ninety eight percent of never married respondents wished to marry and out of those 88% believed that it should be a lifelong commitment. Even though, divorce rates are rising numerous researches show that young people aspire to have a lasting marriage.

Family Law constitutes management of domestic relationships in contemporary society were changing social values evoke issues that legislative reform must try to rectify. These reforms enable recognition of rights of family members in dealing with contemporary issues, such as changing nature of parental responsibility, care and protection of children and same-sex marriage. In the past, a traditional family was the nuclear family unit, but in contemporary society it has become increasingly accepting of alternate family relationships. This changing social perception has incited law reform to effectively highlight contemporary issues in the media and lobby groups. Family law reform has been effective in protecting the disadvantaged, or those who cannot act to preserve their own rights - particularly children. However, a major criticism of legislative reform is the recurring problem of time delays, and ineffective adjustment to contemporary issues quickly. But, also if the law changes too quickly, it may become poor law - too broad or too narrow, contradictory and hard to enforce, thus non-effective.

Thesis: Lowering the voting age to 16, will be good for the country and the citizens.

The debate between whether gay marriage should be legalized or not has been a controversial topic recently. In the past twelve years, equal marriage rights have been legalized in 6 states of the U.S.. Eighteen states do not allow gay marriage and do not recognize civil unions. The other twenty six states allow civil unions, and some are debating legalizing gay marriage. Gay marriage should be legal across the United States.

“Happiness is an inside job. Don’t assign anyone else that much power over your life.” ~Mandy Hale.

About four-in-ten (39%) Americans hold the view that “marriage is becoming obsolete.” An over ten percent increase from merely forty years ago when only twenty-eight percent of the population held that view (A Record Low). We are living in a society where the role of marriage has been largely diminishing, on the rate of every 1,000 people 6.8 of our population had entered a marriage in 2010. Yet nearly half of that of our population got divorced in the same year. For the past ten years our divorce rate has maintained that same rate of around fifty percent (Divorce Rate Trends). Showing that the rate of failed marriage over people entering marriage maintains a higher rate, while our public view of marriage has not reflected this enough.

Imagine a place, where no one has rights, or free will. You're life is in the hands of an unreliable government. Someone who you don't trust. But there is nothing you can do. They were elected by other people, after all. Good morning 6A. voting is very important and we can’t risk the leadership of our country. We can’t give our fates for the next several years to 13 year olds. The voting age should stay as it is because children may not take it seriously enough, most don’t know enough about politics, and in the end their votes won’t make much of a difference.

In this year’s essay, David Popenoe argues that long-term trends point to the gradual weakening of marriage as the primary social institution of family life. More Americans today are living together, marrying at older ages or not at all, and rearing children in cohabiting or solo parent households. Overall, the U.S. trends are following the far-advanced trends toward nonmarriage in Northwestern European nations, albeit at a slower and more uneven pace.

In the Persuasive argument, “The Right Voting Age”, the National Youth Rights Association. National Youth Rights Association believe that 16 have the right to vote. ”According to National Youth Rights Association, “As students, youths are most directly impacted by education policy, they have the perspective to determine what changes are needed” (451)”. 16 years old are not really ready to vote like over 18 because they don’t know a lot about the life they have to be more source, so they will know how to act in the life and vote about things. I disagree with National Youth Rights Association view that, 16 years old can’t vote because their ideas are different from 18 and older so it will be in our cultures so many problems of 16 years old are voting. For example, if

Furthermore, like mentioned earlier, maturity is huge. Even though, the United States justice system marks a teenager an adult at the age of 18, that by no means makes teenagers able to make progressive and responsible decisions for their life or for the life of others. Marriage requires both individuals to be able to make non-impulsive decisions since both lives have been conjoined. “The first years of adulthood, when you become the driver, navigating adult life for the very first time, are the very first steps of adulthood and they make a significant contribution to where you will go and how you will do. (Tanner).” The decision of getting married early is a perfect example of impulsive behavior and immaturity. Most the time, these relationships have only been together for a few months or even just a few years; it is beyond irresponsible to say that both parties fully understand the other during a short period. In the opposing corner, teenagers stand by the fact that they are marked adults by the age of 18. These so called “adults” believe since they can fight for our country and vote for the next presidential leader, this justifies their actions and proves that they are accountable enough to make executive and

As the society changing, the history of marriage also changes. Marriage is legally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship, but do those two partners always have to be a man and a woman? Most people believe that homosexuals should be granted equal rights as heterosexual couples. Being as an important social issue, same-sex marriage has become a hot topic of public debates in the recent years. For over the past decade, public support for the same-sex marriage has quickly risen. The United States is one of over twenty countries that allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. I believe that same-sex marriage should be legalized in all countries for several reasons, such as being an issue of equal rights, separation of church and state, no negative effect on the heterosexual communities, increasing in child adoption, and decreasing divorce and suicide rates.