The news that Brangelina may wed ”“ after some members of the couple’s expansive, multicontinental brood demanded it ”“ was perhaps to be expected.
“Kids hold up a mirror to you,” Brad Pitt told USA Weekend last week.
Though Mr. Pitt had promised he and Angelina Jolie would only wed when the United States legalized gay marriage, the actors may have to nix that grand gesture at the behest of their children.
No, sorry, but this reminds me way too much of the bratty kid in the Highlander commercials. Particularly in America, it seems as if the kids run the households, and that’s why our families are so screwed up. Using this sort of argument is, in the bratty Highlander kid’s words, lame.
Marriage has nothing to do with how long a couple has been together or has lived together or how many children they have together. Marriage is a commitment, a lifelong pledge of loyalty and faithfulness–one to the other, male to female/female to male–“in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, for better or for worse.” Getting married for the kids may be the wrong reason but it seems the kids know that they themselves are best served by married parents.
When do we talk about marriage being the picture of Jesus and His bride the Church?
drjoan, No, kids that age want to be like the majority. Period. They’re not old enough to be discerning their best interests; they’re certainly not studying break-up statistics between married and unmarried couples. And they may have pals whose married parents divorced while Brangelina is still going strong.
It probably wouldn’t even occur to Brangelina’s little kids that their parents aren’t or should be married if adults/the media didn’t keep asking the couple when they’re getting married. That’s why this “kid-driven” argument is rather silly.