Before Washington goes off on too many tangents of the \u201cPetraeus scandal\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201c we shouldn\u2019t forget that this high-level affair is only the latest public example of the state of marriage in America.<\/p>\n
Marriage rates have fallen in the past decade even as one public figure after another \u201d\u201c John Edwards, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford, to name a few \u201d\u201c have had their infidelities revealed. More than 40 percent of people between ages 18 and 29 now see marriage as obsolete.<\/p>\n
The extramarital affair of Gen. David Petraeus with his official biographer, Paula Broadwell, stands out even more because of the trust that he earned in the military and national security fields. Yet now trust in his marital fidelity has failed. So his resignation as CIA director was necessary. Why? Because his willingness to privately harm his family could result in his harming others in his official duties….<\/p>\n