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Article: TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE BENEFITS SOCIETY.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- March 19, 2000
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Marriage - both in modern and traditional forms - seems to be on everyone's mind. How our society considers matrimony, though, shows why this honorable institution has reached its current state of decay.
First, we glimpsed the marriage of the future on Feb. 15, when 23 million TV viewers tuned in to see ``Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?'' Viewers watched 50 women parade in ``beachwear'' and answer insipid questions, hoping to become the wife of Mr. Right - namely, Rick Rockwell of San Diego, a man none of them had ever laid eyes on before.
For his wife, the millionaire chose Darva Conger, a nurse from Thousand Oaks. This ignoble union died a quick ...