Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire A Communion of Anxiety: Hookup Culture and the Impossible Horizon of the Future

I think you are wrong. There would be no need for the family court system if everyone who got married, stayed married. The family court system, in other words, is the result of the "Hookup Culture", not the cause.

As to #2, technology has indeed made it available at no cost, but the problem began long before the technology existed.

Both of the factors you cite are making matters worse, but they are not causes; rather, they are effects. I think humanity got on the slippery slope it is on now back in the '60s during the hippie era of "free love." There is no such thing. If it's free, it's not love and if it's love, it's not free.

It did. The source of the problem is in people's hearts and minds, not some pictures or laws. I don't blame the gun for violence either.

Give away half your stuff.....and half your future stuff?


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All that's true. Another issue is that young people who spent their teens and twenties "hooking up" with everything that walks are damaged to the point that they're incapable of forming a committed relationship. The saying that "you can't turn a ho into a housewife" is true, if they view sex as something as mundane as shopping for groceries then they're likely to cheat on you the first times they get pissed off at you, and as any married man knows they're pissed off at you half the time. The likelihood of being cheated on if you marry one of these hookup culture partners is extremely high, then you've got to decide if you'll put up with it and stay married or divorce them and lose most of your money and property.

^^^Part of the problem.^^^

I know men in their 40's and in their 20's that don't want to get married or have a long term relationship.

It's not due to being morally bankrupt. It's due to the family court system in the United States.

You say egg; I say chicken. ;-{>8

I did it the non traditional way I guess. Didnt get married til 42. Never wanted kids, so it took awhile to find a decent woman who shared my values and goals. Seems like all the women I dated all wanted kids. Found my wife and we both knew it was meant to be. If I had found her at 22 I would have married her then.

I find it sorta funny that a bunch of older men would have an opinion on the younger generation's sexual and marriage habits when they all brag endlessly about the sexual exploits of their past....and fall over each other to high five the 14 year old being screwed by the civics teacher.

Today's young people exist in the appropriate time.

Whats next? A home ownership thread?

Things change.

Maybe its a good trend. Fewer marriages equal fewer divorces.


Some jackleg working for the Catholics named O'Malley gonna tell me and mine whats up?


Uhh....no.

Being a Mom means not dumping your kid(s) off at daycare/preschool because you have a "job" and need to be "whatever". Being a Mom is the highest calling a woman could ever have. That does NOT mean dumping your kid(s) off for someone else to raise during their formative years. It means being there with them for their first 5-6 years minimum all day, every day. If being around your kid is tiresome, or loathesome then you should have had your tubes tied and gone on pretending to be a man or working a room at a cathouse.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Yes, Crow hunter. There are a huge number of people completely damaged and broken by the hook-up culture. But I believe healing is possible. For anyone and everyone.

The majority of those passing judgement think the family court systems are perfectly fine.

Men in this country love to call other men deadbeats because a woman or a judge said so.

It did. The source of the problem is in people's hearts and minds, not some pictures or laws. I don't blame the gun for violence either.