The traditional definition is that marriage is a covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which i

The traditional definition is that marriage is a covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring. The more cynical modernist take is that it's a mix between a tax break and privatized welfare that should be abandoned as soon as it stops feeling good.