In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.
Everybody should be free to love and marry who they want.
I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.