{"id":24699,"date":"2017-11-10T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=24699"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:07:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:07:37","slug":"is-marriage-still-an-important-institution-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/is-marriage-still-an-important-institution-for-you","title":{"rendered":"Is marriage still an important institution for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry and Megan Marker will be married on Saturday May 19th, Kensington Palace announced. The couple has already said they plan to hold a May wedding at St. George&#8217;s Church in Windsor Castle. The 33-year-old prince and his 36-year-old fiance announced their engagement on November 27, and a few days later the royal family introduced his bride to the public during a series of official events in Nottingham. With the royal news, people have discussed their own opinions towards marriage.<br \/>\n<strong>Rachel Thomas, 44, not working, Cardiff<\/strong><br \/>\nI never been married, and also my mum have not been married for years. I think marriage is not a necessary part in my life, people get divorced very easily nowadays. I can live alone very well without married someone.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24700\" style=\"width: 6000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-24700 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24700 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" \/><\/noscript> Rachel Thomas<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong>Clare Andrews, 24, Waitress, Belfast<\/strong><br \/>\nNo, I would not. I guess the traditional concept of marriage just not important to me. But maybe I would not say no completely. Actually, I have lots of friends around me who get married very quick after fall in love, but I do not think all of them are serious couple.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24703\" style=\"width: 6000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-24703 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24703 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" \/><\/noscript> Clare Andrews<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong>Mariwan Sultan, 50, driver, UK<\/strong><br \/>\nMarriage, to me, is an important institution for me, it is a project between two person, people have to decide to accept each other into their life, because everyone does not an angel, everyone got mistakes. I am a muslin, we always focus on manage to stay together, and forgive each other.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24903\" style=\"width: 6000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24903\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24903\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" \/><\/noscript> Mariwan Sultan<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong>Polly Hill, 19, Student, Pontypridd ; Kelly Ellis, 23, student, Cardiff<\/strong><br \/>\nI don\u2019t know, maybe, if the right person show up, then I would definitely say yes. If I am be with the right person, I will see the point of marriage. But talking to divorce, I think it have become more acceptable than decades before.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24925\" style=\"width: 6000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24925\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24925\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" \/><\/noscript> Polly Hill &amp; Kelly Ellis<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong>Paula Williams, 44, Civil Servant, UK<\/strong><br \/>\nNo, absolutely not. I have been engaged twice, call it off twice, and don\u2019t believe marriage. Do you want to know the reason? It is a measure used by society to control us. I don\u2019t think it is easy to divorce by the way, it is so hard, and breaking up is such a complicated thing to deal with.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24943\" style=\"width: 6000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24943\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/4-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24943\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/4-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" \/><\/noscript> Paula Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked people who on the street about their attitude to marriage and some social phenomenon such as easily divorce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":25129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is marriage still an important institution for you? 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