“The real barrier is the soaring cost of marriage and child-rearing. Many young people simply can’t afford to get married. To truly raise marriage rates, the government needs to lower these economic burdens.”
“The real barrier is the soaring cost of marriage and child-rearing. Many young people simply can’t afford to get married. To truly raise marriage rates, the government needs to lower these economic burdens.”
You’re mixing other ideas now, muddying the waters if we’re talking about present day events. I’m not arguing about structures of marriage of history long ago. Yes, marriage has historically been a subjection of women where they had few rights and even those usually flowed through the relationship with a wife’s husband. Same sex marriage wasn’t legal in any form back then. I’m not talking about then.
I’m talking about modern marriage. I’m talking about, lets say, the last 50 years. Birth control existed, women could vote and open bank accounts. The Civil Rights act barring discrimination based on sex (1964) being in full effect etc. Further, I’m talking post-Obergefell supreme court where same sex marriage is legal. All of the points I made in my prior post are in reference to modern day marriage.
But most of the laws regarding marriage weren’t written in that time, they were written back when the legal situation was women could vote but you married a person from the surrounding five villages or neighborhoods or so that was roughly your age and you married for largely economic reasons. Divorce did not exist for the average person and marriages were for life even if they weren’t particularly happy. Living together unmarried was considered sinful.
That is the very reason they use marriage as a catchall for relationships, cohabitation with a romantic partner, coparenting,… in legal texts instead of considering other options.