I do..... not!

While becoming a newspaper and internet news connoisseur (through my time at the NEA), I've noticed a disturbing trend... infidelity.
Check out these two articles in Time Magazine (the second is here: Time).
What do you make of it?
As for me, it makes me really sad. And scared. It doesn't only scare me that the idea of a family that stays together is becoming obsolete, but that people's ideas of marriage are solely based around their kids, and not on their relationship with each other.
The goal of marriage is not children. Yes, it may be an outcome, but people don't get married so they can have babies. We all know where babies come from anyway.
Marriage is supposed to be a way you publicly commit to another person - you're best friend, partner, whatever you want to call it - and a ritual that affirms the relationship between the two of you.
I think people are taking this kind of commitment way too lightly. On top of that, they are starting families without having a relationship strong enough to support them.
Of course, I do not have the actual experience to comment - but I've seen bad and good marriages in my family. A good marriage is hard work, but its work that is worth it. Commitment is hard work, but if you truly love someone then its a logical step.
And yeah, someday I think I'd like to wear a white dress and walk down an aisle of some sort and there'll be music, I suppose, but I don't want to go into it with someone that thinks it's something that can be lightly broken.
I'm gonna have to think about this more...this whole infidelity thing in our culture...