Comments on: Time: Is There Hope for the American Marriage? http://www.yursil.com/blog/2009/07/time-is-there-hope-for-the-american-marriage/ islam, muslims, history, excerpts, life Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:43:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: George Carty http://www.yursil.com/blog/2009/07/time-is-there-hope-for-the-american-marriage/#comment-39167 George Carty Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:20:45 +0000 http://www.yursil.com/blog/?p=2138#comment-39167 Is one of the root causes of the decline in the family the fact that modern technological society requires children to be educated for a much longer period of time (eg a large minority of children now attend university), such that the age of peak sexual libido is well before the person becomes economically self-sufficient? This means that the no-sex-before-marriage doctrine of the Abrahamic faiths could only be maintained either by refraining from sex until later in life (which would cause similar pathologies - albeit in a limited time-frame - to those which afflicted celibate Christian monks and nuns), or by marrying before economic self-sufficiency. I read (<a href="http://www.minaret.org/islamic%20religion%20and%20western%20culture.pdf" rel="nofollow">link</a>) that some American Muslim families arrange for their children to marry before starting university, but I can't accept that more than a small minority of households are sufficiently affluent to do this. Don't most university students rack up enormous debts even without having to support a spouse and possibly children? Is one of the root causes of the decline in the family the fact that modern technological society requires children to be educated for a much longer period of time (eg a large minority of children now attend university), such that the age of peak sexual libido is well before the person becomes economically self-sufficient?

This means that the no-sex-before-marriage doctrine of the Abrahamic faiths could only be maintained either by refraining from sex until later in life (which would cause similar pathologies – albeit in a limited time-frame – to those which afflicted celibate Christian monks and nuns), or by marrying before economic self-sufficiency. I read (link) that some American Muslim families arrange for their children to marry before starting university, but I can’t accept that more than a small minority of households are sufficiently affluent to do this. Don’t most university students rack up enormous debts even without having to support a spouse and possibly children?

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