group marriage

Examples of group marriage in the following topics:

• The Nature of Marriage

  • Currently, the legal concept of marriage is expanding to include same-sex marriage in some areas as well.
  • Outside of the traditional marriage between monogamous heterosexual couples, other forms of marriage exist.
  • Group marriage is a form of polyamory in which more than two persons form a family unit.
  • All the members of the group marriage are considered to be married to all the other members of the group marriage.
  • All members of the marriage share parental responsibility for any children arising from the marriage.

• Change in Marriage Rate

  • Over the past three decades, marriage rates in the United States have increased for all racial and ethnic groups.
  • African Americans have married the least of all of the predominant ethnic groups in the U.S. with a 29.9% marriage rate, but have the highest separation rate which is 4.5%.
  • African Americans have married the least of all of the predominant ethnic groups in the U.S. with a 29.9% marriage rate, but have the highest separation rate which is 4.5%.
  • African Americans have married the least of all of the major ethnic groups in the U.S., with a 29.9% marriage rate, but have the highest separation rate which is 4.5%.
  • In the United States, the two ethnic groups with the highest marriage rates included Asians with 58.5%, and Whites with 52.9%.

• Families and Inequality

  • The higher rates of divorce for individuals in lower social classes is largely attributable to the greater stresses these couples and groups face, particularly financial stress.
  • Societies have also at times required marriage from within a certain group.
  • In the Protestant tradition, Calvin and his colleagues reformulated marriage through enactment of The Marriage Ordinance of Geneva, imposing, "The dual requirements of state registration and church consecration to constitute marriage."
  • In England and Wales, it was Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act that first required a formal ceremony of marriage, thereby curtailing the practice of Fleet Marriage.
  • In many jurisdictions, the civil marriage ceremony may take place during the religious marriage ceremony, although they are theoretically distinct.

• Family

  • In some cultures, marriage imposes upon women the obligation to bear children.
  • In most societies, marriage between brothers and sisters is forbidden.
  • In many societies, marriage between some first cousins is preferred, while at the other extreme, the medieval Catholic Church prohibited marriage even between distant cousins.
  • The present day Catholic Church still maintains a standard of required distance for marriage.
  • Exogamy can be broadly defined as a social arrangement according to which marriages can only occur with members outside of one's social group.

• Mate Selection

  • In some communities, partner selection is an individual decision, while in others, it is a collective decision made by the partners' kin groups.
  • In many societies, the choice of partner is limited to suitable persons from specific social groups.
  • In some of these societies, individuals are only allowed to select partners from the individual's social group.
  • In other societies, on the other hand, partners can be selected from a different social group than one's own.
  • Forced marriage is a term used to describe a marriage in which one or both parties is married without consent, against his or her will.

• New Developments in Families

  • Women and men began delaying the age of first marriage in order to invest in their earning power before marriage by spending more time in school.
  • living with someone before marriage as a way to avoid divorce
  • The differences are generally small, but are not attributable to demographic differences between the three groups.
  • In late 2005, 21% of families in Finland consisted of cohabiting couples (all age groups).
  • Some married couples and groups remain childless by choice or due to infertility, age, or other factors preventing reproduction.

• Marriage and Responsibility

  • Part of the reason why education is so influential in determining the level of education of one's spouse is because people tend to form groups based on levels of education.
  • First, there are the groups formed in the process of becoming educated; many people meet their spouses at school.
  • But jobs after one completes his or her education also tend to be grouped by level of education.
  • One well-known attribute of marriage is that it tends to have health benefits.
  • Assess the importance of the institution of marriage, as well as the various reasons why people enter into a marriage

• The Movement for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights

  • The riots gained much media attention and served as visible evidence that there was a large population of homosexual people that could be organized into a politically active group.
  • Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996.
  • Civil unions provide the legal benefits of marriage to same-sex couples, but not the title of marriage.
  • At present, thirty-one states have passed constitutional bans on same-sex marriage, defining marriage within their state as between a man and a woman.
  • Challenges to bans on same-sex marriage contend that laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are discriminatory.

• Homophobia

  • After the rise of Adolf Hitler, homosexuals were one of the many groups targeted by the Nazi Party and became victims of the Holocaust.
  • Gay marriage has become a sensitive political issue over the past decade, partially due to the fact that the federal government and state governments have different laws about gay marriage.
  • In 1996, the federal government passed the Defense of Marriage Act.
  • According to this act, the federal government cannot recognize gay marriages, and a state that does not recognize gay marriage does not have to accept the marriage license given to a same-sex couple in a different state that does recognize same-sex marriages.
  • Laws regarding same-sex marriage vary by state in the U.S.

• Families and Theory

  • In some cultures marriage imposes upon women the obligation to bear children.
  • In almost all societies, marriage between brothers and sisters is forbidden, with Ancient Egyptian, Hawaiian, and Inca royalty being the rare exceptions.
  • In many societies, marriage between some first cousins is preferred, while at the other extreme, the medieval Catholic church prohibited marriage even between distant cousins.
  • The present day Catholic Church still maintains a standard of required distance (in both consanguinity and affinity) for marriage.
  • The consequence of the incest-taboo is exogamy, the requirement to marry someone from another group.