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Marriage, apart from a nice opportunity of celebration, is a legal contract.
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y ago
Marriage, apart from a nice opportunity of celebration, is a legal contract.
- n4r9 3y agoIn my experience the legal nature of it is not what encourages one to get outside of oneself, as the original reply describes.
- Veen 3y agoIt's also, and perhaps primarily, a vow.
- WastingMyTime89 3y agoExtremely American way of looking at it. Here in France most of my friends have been in committed relationships and living together for years, some have children, only one couple is married. Marriage is an holdover from a time far removed which is both utterly useless and slightly paternalistic.
- Veen 3y agoI’m not American, thank you. Also, there were almost a quarter of a million marriages in France in 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/464239/total-number-marriages-france/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/464239/total-number-marr...
- orhmeh09 3y agoI think your view is an extremely Western way of looking at it. Maybe examine attitudes in India for example. Also Indonesia and many others; possibly a supermajority of people in the world, even.
- pjmlp 3y agoIn some European countries you can have that contract without marriage as such.