Marriage
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A marriage is a relationship between or among individuals, usually recognized by civil authority and/or bound by the religious beliefs of the participants.
In one form or another, marriage is found in virtually every society. The very oldest records that refer to it speak of it as an established custom. Despite attempts by anthropologists to trace its origin (such as the hypothesis of primitive promiscuity), evidence is lacking.
In Western societies, marriage has traditionally been understood as a monogamous union, while in other parts of the world polygamy has been a common form of marriage. Usually this has taken the form of polygyny (a man having several wives) but a very few societies have permitted polyandry (a woman having several husbands).
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- Age at first marriage
- Age disparity in sexual relationships
- Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage, and Registration of Marriages (UN treaty)
- Feminism
- List of people with longest marriages
- Marriage privatization
- Men's rights
- Misandry
- Radical feminism
- Same-sex marriage
- Sexual conflict
- Types of marriages
- Marriage tree
- Related concepts
- Adultery - Sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse.
- Alimony - obligation of support.
- Annulment - legal procedure for declaring a marriage null and void.
- Aufruf - A ceremony in which Jews pelt the couple to be married with candy on the shabbat before the wedding.
- Betrothal - formal state of engagement to be married.
- Bride Price - The amount of money or property or wealth paid by the groom or his family to the parents of a woman upon the marriage of their daughter to the groom
- Bride Service
- Child marriage
- Christian views of marriage - views of Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, and others
- Civil marriage - marriages which are constituted by a government official and not a religious congregation.
- Divorce - ending of a marriage.
- Dowry - the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage
- Engagement
- Family therapy/Relationship counseling
- Free love - a social movement opposed to marriage
- Head and Master laws
- Husband/Wife
- Human sexuality
- Human-animal marriage - ceremonial ritual practice in some cultures, with no legal standing
- Human sexual behaviour
- Hypergamy
- Inheritance
- Islamic marital jurisprudence
- Living apart together
- Mail-order bride
- Marriage (conflict)
- Marriage gap
- Marriage law
- Marriageable age
- Monogamy/Polygamy
- Nikah urfi
- Separation - a step in the ending of a marriage.
- Social unit
- Wedding
