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Americans believe in lifelong marriage, but don't live it, speaker says
07-07-2009
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) -- Although the majority of Americans want to get married and believe marriage should last a lifetime, the American dream often doesn't match the reality, social scientist Barbara Dafoe Whitehead told an audience of family life ministers in St. Paul.
"You might say that Americans are enchanted with the idea of marriage and the aspiration to marriage, but disenchanted with being married, particularly to one person for a lifetime," she said.
And Catholics are showing tendencies more like the general population than in previous generations, she said in a June 25 keynote address at the annual conference of the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers.
Titled "Becoming a Marriage-Building Church: Implementing the U.S. Bishops' Pastoral Initiative on Marriage," the conference offered a range of workshops and featured national speakers on marriage-related issues.
It was held June 25-28 at the University of St. Thomas.
The U.S. bishops have named marriage a top priority and in 2004 launched the multiyear National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage. They also plan to release a pastoral letter on marriage.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20090706.htm
