Western Culture Disappearing

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3rd of September 2010 Western Culture Disappearing Is the western culture disappearing? The western culture is disappearing but there are still some that is surviving. The tradition is getting lost,but some are still hangingon for dear life. For example gay marriage is getting accepted among more countries, but it is still banned in many other countries. Where as sex before marriage is part of the western culture that is disappearing.. Before if you had sex before marriage you were then looked down on among society. Corporal punishment used to be very common all over the world, but now it is banned in most countries and has a limit to it. One of the western cultures that is stilling going strong is gay marriage. It is still not accepted in most countries. The main problem about the while conflict on whether gay marriage should be legal or not is one word ‘children.’ Here is a quote from Jeffrey Satinover, M. D., a psychiatrist and member of the Department of Politics at Princeton University: "In every area of life, cognitive, emotional, social, developmental ... at every phase of the life cycle ... social evidence shows that there are measurable effects when children lack either a mother or a father. ... The evidence is overwhelming. Mountains of evidence, collected over decades, show that children need both mothers and fathers." This proves that some of the western culture is stilling here and will continue to be, getting stronger as time progresses. Western culture is still fading though. This displayed by sex before marriage. This is still very new to western culture, but it is increasing dramatically. If an average twenty-five year old has had sex before marriage, it is actually considered ordinary. A survey was taken out and the result was that people should have sex before marriage, here is why they think that: “Can you imagine holding out until the

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