Teen Mom's Leah Pulls Plug on Marriage,
Divorcing Corey After Six Months
An avid Teen Mom watcher as well as Sixteen and Pregnant watcher, this news crushed me yesterday. We were all pulling for them! But, it seems like its final. Corey and Leah are getting divorced. This made me look into more statistics on teenage marriage/divorce rates. Was it just fame going to their heads or are teenage couples just not always ready for it? I looked at an article by the Center for Law and Social Policy, and it seems like marriage just isn't always in the best interest so young. What do you all think? Should couples try to "make it work" for the baby? Or is it better to wait it out until your older?
Sarah D
Sarah D
I totally say it's better to wait until ta teenage couple is older to make that kind of decision - it's definitely better not to rush into that kind of thing simply based on conveince. I'm a firm believe that you should love someone before you marry them. Speaking from experience, my mother got pregnant at 17 by my father, 23, and my grandmother pushed the issue of marriage pretty heavily. They were married 9 years before they were divorced, and I can honestly say that I never saw how a proper relationship should function until my parents married other people. My parents didn't marry each other because they were in love, the married each other because it was convient and the right thing to do in society. So, bascially, the idea of marrying to "make it work" for the child, can often times end up doing more harm for the child than good.
ReplyDelete-Andrea
I think the choice to marry or not is different for everyone. I do not think there is a right or wrong option. It is up to the two people to decide what is best for them. I do however think it is harder for people who are younger to stay married because they have so much to learn still and may not be mature enough to handle marriage but some teens can make a marriage work. So, I say again it all depends on the people and their situation.
ReplyDeleteKristen M
Marriage can be a great thing, but it can also be bad. A friend of mine had married parents that absolutely hated each other. They cursed at each other multiple times everyday. They were always fighting, but they stayed together because they didn't want their child to have divorced parents. I think it would have been much better to have divorced parents than to have parents fighting and cursing all the time.
ReplyDeleteTaylor Z.
It is a tough call because as much as you want the perfect family scenario sometimes it is just not meant to be. Being young you have so much to learn about yourself and throwing children in the mix makes life even more complicated. I am sad Leah's marriage did not work out but I think as long as couples take it day by day and don't compare their relationship to anyone else and are honest with themselves, then that is the best they can do for themselves and their child. Every situation is different and you can't give all couples the same answer on how to make it work
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ReplyDeleteI don't think that it is the solution when its forced upon but if that's what they desire to do then it may help relieve some social stress. But if parents are imposing their own ideas it will cause more harm than good...I think its so circumstantial though...Marriage isnt for everyone
ReplyDeleteAlice M