But with the spread of a market economy, "it's less important for people to have permission of their parents to wait to give them an inheritance or to work on their parents' land," Coontz said.
Modern markets also allow women to play a greater economic role, which lead to their greater independence. And the expansion of democracy , with its emphasis on liberty and individual choice, may also have stacked the deck for love matches.
Still, marriage wasn't about equality until about 50 years ago. At that time, women and men had unique rights and responsibilities within marriage. For instance, in the United States, marital rape was legal in many states until the s, and women often could not open credit cards in their own names, Coontz said. Women were entitled to support from their husbands, but didn't have the right to decide on the distribution of community property.
And if a wife was injured or killed, a man could sue the responsible party for depriving him of "services around the home," whereas women didn't have the same option, Coontz said. By about 50 years ago, the notion that men and women had identical obligations within marriage began to take root. Instead of being about unique, gender-based roles, most partners conceived of their unions in terms of flexible divisions of labor, companionship, and mutual sexual attraction.
Changes in straight marriage paved the way for gay marriage. Once marriage was not legally based on complementary, gender-based roles, gay marriage seemed like a logical next step.
Original article on LiveScience. See Word Story at the current entry. Also called opposite-sex marriage. See also traditional marriage def. Compare royal marriage. See antonyms for marriage on Thesaurus. We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms.
Marriage, wedding, nuptials are terms for the ceremony uniting couples in wedlock. Marriage is the simple and usual term, without implications as to circumstances and without emotional connotations: to announce the marriage of a daughter. Wedding has rather strong emotional, even sentimental, connotations, and suggests the accompanying festivities, whether elaborate or simple: a beautiful wedding; a reception after the wedding. Nuptials is a formal and lofty word applied to the ceremony and attendant social events; it does not have emotional connotations but strongly implies surroundings characteristic of wealth, rank, pomp, and grandeur: royal nuptials.
It appears frequently on newspaper society pages chiefly as a result of the attempt to avoid continual repetition of marriage and wedding. And this diversity has been in evidence, if not since the beginning of time, at least since the beginning of marriage itself, roughly some years ago.
Multiple wives, for example, proliferate in the Bible. Phrases Related to marry get married marry into money marry money. Style: MLA. More Definitions for marry. English Language Learners Definition of marry.
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Through marriage, a woman became a man's property. In the betrothal ceremony of ancient Greece, a father would hand over his daughter with these words: "I pledge my daughter for the purpose of producing legitimate offspring.
If wives failed to produce offspring, their husbands could give them back and marry someone else. When did religion become involved? As the Roman Catholic Church became a powerful institution in Europe, the blessings of a priest became a necessary step for a marriage to be legally recognized. By the eighth century, marriage was widely accepted in the Catholic church as a sacrament, or a ceremony to bestow God's grace. At the Council of Trent in , the sacramental nature of marriage was written into canon law.
Did this change the nature of marriage? Church blessings did improve the lot of wives. Men were taught to show greater respect for their wives, and forbidden from divorcing them. Christian doctrine declared that "the twain shall be one flesh," giving husband and wife exclusive access to each other's body.
This put new pressure on men to remain sexually faithful. But the church still held that men were the head of families, with their wives deferring to their wishes. When did love enter the picture?
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