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Why do people want their children to get married even though they don't have a good marriage life?
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Because a happy marriage is an "ideal" and every parent wants their child to be happy.  However, maybe I'm different from other parents.  I do not want my child to get married if they don't want to be married.  There's nothing wrong with being single.
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It doesn't mean that if your parents had a bad marriage that yours can't be good. your life's happiness does not depend on them, you are the writer of you destiny, you decide what you want to be and the way you want your life to look like. of course all this is through the help of God he's the one who directs your feet.
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It is weird to me too, I think people should stop thinking that marriage is a must. You can survive without getting married and even have a better life compared to someone who is in a toxic or messed up marriage. For example those women who get married as the third or second wife. You can't be happy living in such a marriage or family since you won't feel the affection from your partner.
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You can survive without getting married and even have a better life compared to someone who is in a toxic or messed up marriage. For example those women who get married as the third or second wife. You can't be happy living in such a marriage or family since you won't feel the affection from your partner.

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It's because they want their children to have and to experience what they didn't get to experience in their life. Even though their marriage fail, it doesn't mean that their children's marriage will bear the same outcome. Like any parents, they just want them to experience the best things that this life has to offer. They do not want them to have to endure the same things they had for the very reason of having a failed marriage. In other words, they still have faith that a married life will bring about good things for their children.

However, a parent should not force their children to get married if they do not want to. This aspect is for them to decide because this concerns their life. What parents should to is to support their children no matter what kind of life they choose--be it a married or a non-married life.
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Because a sound and happy marriage is not the scope rather a fulfil marriage is most desired. People actually desire their children to get married because it is the only moral thing that a child needs to stay decent haven acquired mmost and life basic desires.
At a particular age, parents expect their children to have started seeing opposite sex and also start having urge to attract with opposite sex.

Doing such ordinarily won't be reasonable judging by religion and moral value without following the right channel which is most acceptable.

So parents do encourage marriage such that even the outcome of the attraction won't bring up a disappointment to the family rather a pride through marriage.

Another reason why parents want their children to get married despite their own unhappiness is connected to the fact that, the dream of future should be better than history of past everyone won't be unlucky and marriage is an institution for God rather than for men.

Many parent also want their children married as a competition with another family, not minding fate and ambitions.
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Parents would always wanted to see their children settle down in a marriage life in-spite their marriage is bot that good. It doesn't a parent marriage wasn't good, their children's future will get ruined. Every human has a chances to prove or do something that they can build their own family and would not follow what their parents had.  Staying in a marriage life is not easy, it full of ups and down. You cannot find a married couple who doesn't have a problem, you may see a lot of couple look  very happy but behind those smiles, they have their own struggles too. No one is perfect so does the marriage. I would like to see my own children settle down one day with their own family and guide them through. I want them to be responsible enough to start a family.
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Well, you are very correct about saying that there is absolutely nothing wrong with being single and not getting married. It's a personal life decision each and every one of us will definitely be making sooner or later in our lives and each of us must live with the consequences or benefits of our decisions. 

Now, on the parents part of trying their very possible best to get their children married is a natural thing because they had to get married in the first place in order to bring their children into the world, so they actually have a good reason to desire prolonging their family root by having their own children to get married to push the family forward. 

Children getting married adds a huge joy in their lives of the parents, even though they might have challenges in their own marriage, they would never wish same misfortune to their own children because it's in parents nature to care and look out for their children. 
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Ideally every parent wants the best for their children. They may not have a happy marriage life but they hope that their children will not go through what they experienced. They want their children to experience things that they didn't experience and that will make them happy as a parent. Seeing your children grow, become stable and build their own family is a fulfillment. 
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Marriage is natural because we need each other to develop and bring out our strength and weaknesses. When there is lack of compatibility it is difficult for relationships to work. Relationships work out well when couple compliment each other.  So take a careful look at your relationship, consider the positives and negatives, and pray about it, prayer brings miracles and divine answers to our problems. 
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Parents want their children to be happy and never repeat the mistakes they've done.
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Not every marriage is failed. Happy and successful couples are also living in this world. Every parents wants their children to get marry. Because they want to ensure the their children is good after them. They want someone to take care of them. 
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People want their Childrens to get married,even though they don't have a good marriage life because they expect that the bad things,whatever happened in their marriage life will not happen in the life of their Childrens.
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They are still their parents. As I can see the situation, parents want their children to be happy and be married. Despite having failure marriage, they are just concern about their children's welfare. In fact, it is nothing to do with their current situation. In China, most traditional parents are so active in finding husbands or wives to be of their children. It happens until now and even in other Muslim countries.
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Every parents must have a wish that their children get happy life. Married, have a baby is ideal things that considered as a happy life.They must be  wishing that the children get better marriage life than them. Also sometimes parents want their children realize the things the parents failed to achieve.
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fact there are failed marriages does not mean that there are no wonderful marriages. Furthermore, it is not automatic that the children will follow the same path of life as their parents. People want different things. There are those who enjoy companionship while others want a totally independent life. A child from a broken home may want to have a married life and they should be given all the support needed to make it a success. Generally, parents want their children to have a much better life than theirs. In this instance a parent must be open and admit to their children the mistakes they made in their marriages so that the children do not repeat the same mistakes. Furthermore they must emphasize to their children that a good marriage begins by getting married for the right reasons.relationship between two people most probably of the opposite sex. Marriage was given to ensure a perfect man marries a perfect woman to beget perfect children. When the first parents disobeyed God is when imperfection found a way into marriage. There are disturbed marriages yet we need our children to marry and get married
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In summary, I can say that divorced parents know that it is possible for marriages to work and the fact they themselves failed in this regard does not in any way mean that their children's marriages are cursed and doomed to faill
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Parents are very careful to their child, that's why the pain or the mistake they've had must not be felt by their children. Marrying is a happy moment for everyone that means they want their child to be happy in the near future
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Most people think marriage is a must and they just don't want to go against the expectations of the society. People just have this idea that you just need to get married that's why you find desperate people who want to get married. This is a major reason why some marriages fail because they did it to meet the expectations of the society. Some people even preserve  in a bad marriage because it looks bad to get a divorce.
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I think that the children are seeing the parents' broken life. so it may affect also the kids. so it is better didn't force them to marry. it should be their choice to marry or not. mostly if the kid gets married.
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If your parents love you for real and still want you to get married, even though they themselves do not have good married life then I can think of only one valid reason " they don't want you to need up alone, they want someone to take care of you in times of problem" expecting good thing even going through it's opposite in life is something very common. I have friends whose parents have admitted during the normal conversation that they want their daughter to settle down after marriage in front of their eyes so that they can die in peace and that their daughter is in good hands.
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Just because my marriage isn't working doesn't mean everybody else's marriages won't work. Marriage is a very beautiful thing. Everyone should get the chance to experience it 
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Because the purpose of marriage biblical is companship.

So there's is no reason whatsoever my children will remain single because I don't have a good marriage life.

Who knows that my children may be blessed by God because marriage is God's divine plan and enjoy good marriage lives. Everyone has their own grace and life portion.
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They want their children to get married so that their parents will not worry about their children in their life and parents have many illnesses and not capable to care of their children later in life. Their children will have the family of their own and their children's families will take care of their children once they get old or sick later. 
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Perhaps it is because they want their children to marry while they are alive so as to guide them in order for them not to make the same mistakes.
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