Is The Bible Relevant to Modern Marriages?
As a post-Christian culture, many people have mistaken traditional perspectives of marriage as Biblically based. The Bible, however, is not as closely linked with American perspectives and traditions as some would think. While the traditional perspective of American culture places women in a subordinate position of less value, the Bible actually empowers women in their roles to make important decisions for their families. The result of traditional perspectives in American culture, as Bruess and Pearson point out, is that it is still often perceived that a woman’s place is in the home, cooking, cleaning and raising the children, and that a man’s place is in the breadwinning, providing and protecting of the family (153). As a result, while there has been an increase in dual career families, the role of taking care of the house and children has remained the woman’s responsibility, giving the woman in a marriage a double burden (153-154). Furthermore, even though the American woman is over
