marriage

Examples of marriage in the following topics:

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.