Think there is healthy attitude toward marriage these days? Don’t agree that today’s moral structure is deteriorating fast? Well, turn your TV to the Fox Network during the next couple of weeks and you will see a show guaranteed to turn even the most stable of stomachs.

Wednesday, February 09, 2000

Think there is healthy attitude toward marriage these days? Don’t agree that today’s moral structure is deteriorating fast? Well, turn your TV to the Fox Network during the next couple of weeks and you will see a show guaranteed to turn even the most stable of stomachs.

"I Want to Marry a Multi-Millionaire" assembles a bevy of beauties who all have a goal – marrying a rich man they have never met.

That’s right, these game show contestants are going to strut around a stage and answer questions from a mystery man whom they will meet only on their wedding day, which will occur right there on the show.

Their only qualification for their new fiance is that he have lots of dough. That’s it.

Of course, the implications of such a shallow reason for choosing a mate are scary in themselves, but that a man would subject himself to this kind of matchmaking is even more debilitating for anyone who plans to have a daughter some day.

"I Want to Marry a Multi-Millionaire" is a sign that marriage really is loosing some of its significance these days. Why should this woman worry about her "chosen" mate. If she does not like him, she can dump him and try again.

And let’s not even talk about what the show says about a woman’s worth.

Fixing society’s attitudes is going to take more than a new president or Congress.

First, we are all going to have to change some channels.