marriage
(noun)
The union of two (or sometimes more) people, usually to the exclusion of all others.
Examples of marriage in the following topics:
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The Nature of Marriage
- Other forms of marriage also exist, however.
- Currently, the legal concept of marriage is expanding to include same-sex marriage in some areas as well.
- Outside of the traditional marriage between monogamous heterosexual couples, other forms of marriage exist.
- Supporters of legal recognition for same-sex marriage typically refer to such recognition as marriage equality.
- All members of the marriage share parental responsibility for any children arising from the marriage.
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Mate Selection
- There is wide cross-cultural variation in the social rules governing the selection of a partner for marriage.
- Arranged marriage has deep roots in royal and aristocratic families around the world.
- Forced marriage is a term used to describe a marriage in which one or both parties is married without consent, against his or her will.
- In a shotgun wedding, a marriage between two people is forced because of an unplanned pregnancy.
- an arranged marriage between Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Spain
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Marriage and Responsibility
- The ceremony in which a marriage is enacted and announced to the community is called a wedding.
- The act of marriage creates obligations between the individuals involved and, in some societies, between the parties' extended families.
- Schwartz and Mare examined trends in marriage over time and found that the old maxim "opposites attract" is less accurate of marriage than the maxim "birds of a feather flock together. " Their research focused on one specific similarity in marital partners: education.
- One well-known attribute of marriage is that it tends to have health benefits.
- Assess the importance of the institution of marriage, as well as the various reasons why people enter into a marriage
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Families and Inequality
- Societies have also at times required marriage from within a certain group.
- In the Protestant tradition, Calvin and his colleagues reformulated marriage through enactment of The Marriage Ordinance of Geneva, imposing, "The dual requirements of state registration and church consecration to constitute marriage."
- In England and Wales, it was Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act that first required a formal ceremony of marriage, thereby curtailing the practice of Fleet Marriage.
- In many jurisdictions, the civil marriage ceremony may take place during the religious marriage ceremony, although they are theoretically distinct.
- This law made the declaration of the marriage before an official clerk of the civil administration (spouses affirming their will to marry) the procedure to make a marriage legally valid and effective, and reduced the clerical marriage to a private ceremony.
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Change in Marriage Rate
- Over the past three decades, marriage rates in the United States have increased for all racial and ethnic groups.
- According to the United States Census Bureau, 2,077,000 marriages occurred in the United States in 2009.
- Marriage laws have changed over the course of United States history, including the removal of bans on interracial marriage.
- Native Americans have the second lowest marriage rate at 37.9%.
- Hispanics have a 45.1% marriage rate, with a 3.5% separation rate.
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Factors Associated with Divorce
- Factors that may lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions.
- Numerous studies have tried to determine why 50 percent of marriages in the United States end in divorce within the first 25 years.
- Delaying marriage until one is older or more experienced may provide more opportunity to choose a more compatible partner
- This graph illustrates marriage and divorce rates in the U.S. 1990-2007.
- Discuss five factors that may lead marriages to end in divorce
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Ideal vs. Real Culture
- In America, ideal values include marriage and monogamy based on romantic love.
- And in reality, few marriages endure for life as monogamous couplings.
- But such marriages are not universal, despite our value ideals.
- While monogamous marriages based on romantic love certainly do exist, such marriages are not universal, despite our value ideals.
- In ideal culture, marriage is forever, but in real culture, many marriages end in divorce.
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Marital Residence
- Marriage is an institution which can join together people's lives in a variety of emotional and economic ways.
- A scientific survey of over 1,000 married men and women in the United States found that those who moved in with a lover before engagement or marriage reported significantly lower quality marriages and a greater possibility for splitting up than other couples.
- Marriage is an institution which can join together people's lives in a variety of emotional and economic ways.
- Conversely, marriage is not a prerequisite for cohabitation.
- Conflicting studies on the effect of cohabitation on marriage have been published.
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Statistical Trends in Divorce
- Divorce statistics vary across the world, but on average, first marriages that end in divorce last about eight years.
- On average, first marriages that end in divorce last about eight years.
- The median time between divorce and a second marriage was about three and a half years.
- Data indicates that marriages have lasted longer in the 21st century than they did in the 1990's.
- In Australia, nearly every third marriage ends in divorce.
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Family
- In some cultures, marriage imposes upon women the obligation to bear children.
- In most societies, marriage between brothers and sisters is forbidden.
- In many societies, marriage between some first cousins is preferred, while at the other extreme, the medieval Catholic Church prohibited marriage even between distant cousins.
- The present day Catholic Church still maintains a standard of required distance for marriage.
- Exogamy can be broadly defined as a social arrangement according to which marriages can only occur with members outside of one's social group.