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Quote:You can never seduce your despair, and you can never find real love through any form of sexual activity. Do people look for love through sexual activity initially? Times have changed for generation Y. Sex and love generally don't go hand in hand anymore - they are 2 seperate issues. Many of them don't want long term relationships or any sort of commitment - or so they say. Maybe they really have philophobia. This is not the right article - but similar. As babies of the eighties, the peeps of Gen Y were cultivated in an era of Seinfeld, the Simpsons and Sesame Street.
But the cookies, counting and politically correct hand puppets streaming from the screens into their fertile, young minds, would eventually be replaced by bitter cynicism and social criticism.
Now, as children of this generation approach the age their parents were when they walked down the aisle to probable divorce, they're forced to consider just what, exactly, does it mean to be in love?
Does it truly exist? Must it mean monogamy? Can you be in love more than once? Just how does a generation that has been cultured to question, yet are desperate to believe, overcome the divide between reality and romance?
It has been observed that for many dandy lads and lasses looking to get on board the love boat, the best example they've found to follow is that of their greying grandparents.
Why?
Well, unlike their liberated, free-loving parents, bets are on that their old-folks are still married, own their own home and have firm opinions about their place in society. Tick, tick, tick for the Disney devotees.
To so many who are threatened by the idea of being alone, financially unstable and are confused by the dating minefield, structure, simplicity and safety is attractive. Their grandparents had flowers and courtship, no sex before marriage, and kids were a matter of course. Back then, love was for life.
But of course, scoffing quietly over their soy-chai lattes are the media-saturated (sorry, media-savvy) Gen Y - who were awakened in high school to the idea that love was just another strategy for commercial gain and are wary of most things romantic. These young professionals would love to believe in love, could they only rationalise what to them is irrational.
Instead, they observe their romantic mates invest in $30,000 weddings, private education for their children, and lengthy divorce proceedings.
Most would like a romance with a little from column A, a little from column B.
So, when deciding what love is real, should you follow in the footsteps of mum and dad, or nan and pop?
and this will deter them further......
A prominent legal academic is warning proposed changes to laws governing de facto relationships could limit freedom for young couples.
A Federal Parliamentary committee is looking at changes which could see a national property settlement scheme for all separating couples, including same-sex couples.
Professor Patrick Parkinson says many people, especially young couples, might not agree to the division of future superannuation and maintenance.
"Many people don't want that, particularly young people, particularly Generation Y," he said.
"They are trying relationships out, they're seeing if it'll work ... they don't want the life-long commitment of a marriage when they simply move in," he said.
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