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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
If you need a marriage certificate from the government to validate your relationship with your wife.....well that is just sad.
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It is not at all about "validation," but rather much more about social convention. I suspect that the vast majority of people who marry in the Western world do so from an earnest eagerness to make a publicly sanctioned gesture of exclusive commitment to their life partner. The contractual component of marriage in our society has ancient roots that most people still consider highly valuable: Marriage in the modern world is a formal agreement that helps to clarify and enforce the rules of an exclusive relationship.
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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
Marriage for the purpose of raising children keeps social order.....that to me was the original intent of it....a set of regulations for the sexual market so to speak.
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How does marriage for the purpose of raising children maintain "social order"?