Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social 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.
All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.
Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.
Marriage is an indissoluble state of life wherein a man and a woman agree to give each other power over their bodies for the begetting, birth, and upbringing of offspring.