‘Marriage is no longer relevant in today’s world.’ Do you agree?

Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment between the two parties. It is like a burning fire that binds both parties together. However, it seems that this so-called love does not seems to be the same as before- from love between opposite sex to love formed between the same sex - and this has turned the normal way of belief to change. It is said that it is because of true love that will lead to marriage; a binding of two into one. From recent survey done, it is believed that the word " Marriage" is no longer the main focus by both genders since they lived in a democratic nation that follows the capitalistic system. Money has instead replaced the mind sets of most people and that the traditionalists' school of thought has already changed. Many young adults this days have placed their emphasis on building their career instead of forming their families. This raises numerous speculations that is being marries still applicable in today's context. In my point of view, I still feel that it is still relevant in today's world due to four reasons - social benefits, economic benefits , they still fight for their happiness and due to religious reasons -  and because the pros will outweigh the cons, their mind sets will not cause them to be too far away from the ideas of being married to the opposite sex. Hence the idea of being in united as one will help make the young adults nowadays to thirst for an union.

Capitalism has caused many people to want to acquire more and more real income, leading to the high relevance of marriage in today's world as the economic benefits has helped “lure” the people towards making their vows during their marriage. In most families in capitalistic nations, income generation comes from both parents and with both parents working, the financial security for the women and the males will increase as there is a pooling of resources and money that is especially useful in families that reside in modern and developed cities like Great Britain, France and United States of America where the cost of living is very high. Both husband and wife need to work to contribute to household income in order to sustain and overcome the problem of high cost of living. Tax reliefs and economic incentives are also a reason why people still chose marriage. As stated above, the high of living is a worrying issue that need to be focused on and through these grants and  this concern will be better dealt with. For example, the existing housing policies favour married couples – only married couples are allowed to apply for grants and can apply for a HDB flat, but singles are only allowed to buy houses after they turned 35 years old. Yes, indeed as more and more females climbing up the social ladder, the economic benefits may seems less attractive but capitalism makes them want to marriage in order to have the economic benefits a married women will to received, hence marriage is still relevant in today’s context.