Running Head: Polygamy and Impact on Family Dynamics Polygamy and Impact on Family Dynamics Angela Addington Bakersfield College Professor Sarah King ANTH C111 ABSTRACT Growing up in the United States, people claim they are "open-minded", yet criticize the unknown. One notable example is the concept of marriage. The westernized definition of marriage is defined as the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law. However, marriage by that definition is not universally accurate. Throughout the world marriage takes various forms, from same-sex marriage to polygamous marriages, most of which are subject to criticism within the context and setting of human rights as is any structural aspect of a society.
Cherlin describes individualized marriage as having the goal of a self-fulfilling status. In other words, it is about being in a relationship for one’s own individual needs and benefits. Our final transition of marriage includes today's symbolic values as well as what marriage has offered us individually. Marriages of today allow individuals to experience more forms of marriage, such as it being socially acceptable living with their partner(s). Along with the many options of marriage, the roles of husbands and wives are more flexible and negotiable, unlike before where this would have been
Relevance Statement Marriage is a sacred bond which not only involves the couple but also the two families of the bride and the bridegroom respectively. Be it arrange marriage or love marriage, marriage is nothing different for both. Love marriage vs arrange marriage is just a question prevalent in minds of married couples who are not satisfied or are scared to live with an unknown partner for whole life. IV. Preview of Main Points Some of the benefits of arranged marriage are that : (a) It is more stable and successful.
According to his article, Popenoe it is the retreat from marriage presented in the paragraphs above that is largely to blame in the sharp increases we have seen in residential independence and non-marital cohabitation. He links individuals leaving their homes at an early age as a major factor in the tremendous increase in non-family households and non-family living. He also points out that the number of non-marital couples living together (cohabitation) is steadily increasing. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that those who choose cohabitation before marriage will be much more prone to
There are many differences between marriage today and marriage in the 1800’s. The mere idea of marriage is very different these days. Today, people value marriage in a different way than the way people did back in the day. The reasons for this change rely mainly in the way religion, women rights, and the meaning of love have transformed during the year and changed from generation to generation. In the 1800’s, religion played a much more important role in people’s lives, women had a very specific role in the family, and the meaning of love was much deeper.
These traditional gender roles apply to married life and marriage in general, which is why it is so important to study. Gender roles, in effect, play a major role in the quality of a marriage and how people want their ideal marriage to be. There are egalitarian marriages, where everything is equal and there are traditional marriages, where the husband takes on the role as breadwinner and the wife fulfills the role of homemaker and does not do work outside of the home. These gender roles in marriage are the focus of our research project. The main purpose of our project is to see how college age people in today’s society view gender roles in marriage and to then compare those views to their background, to see if they were raised with these values or acquired them later on.
In some parts of the world, people focus more on education and their careers and prefer to marry late. A lot of people would like to get married and want to have their children and their houses. The first difference in marrying late or marrying early is maturity. People who get married at older ages have usually matured and seem to feel more responsible. The fact that, while these people argue those issues they can think healthy.
They see the rise in the symmetrical family as a result of major social changes in the past century; changes in women position, including married women going out to work, geographical mobility, more couples living away from the communities in which they grew up. Additionally, Gershuny found that wives who worked full time did less domestic work and that the longer the wife had been in pain work, the more housework her husband was likely to do. However, the most important thing is that the roles of the husband and wife, although not identical, are more similar now then they
Today marriage is thought to be of necessity for the individuals composing the marriage. It Takes A Family: Conservatism and The Common Good, by Rick Santorum is a very informative article, touching on the essential points of maintaining a healthy familial relationship throughout all components of the family. These points include his perspective on, the effect a divorce or marriage separation can have on the rest of the family, specifically the children; and the meaning of family concerning marriage commitments and what marriage entails. Santorum provides
Companionship Marriage: The Salvation of Marriage in America Anthony Truong English 2, Sarah Benson Csanyi May 10th, 2012 Companionship Marriage: The Salvation of Marriage in America The institution of marriage in America has undergone several changes through the 20th century due to the changing culture and philosophies that dictated American lifestyle, for better or for worse. However the latter seems to hold true as many modern marriages today are more volatile and nearly half of these unions end in divorce – a stark contrast to the number of divorces that existed at 9% nearly a century ago (divorcestatistics.org, 2012; pbs.org, 2009). The lower divorce rate was due to the fact that marriages one century ago operated under institutionalized conditions, otherwise being termed as institutional marriage, in that there was a male head that lead the family and its operations and the purposes of marriages were focused on creating and sustaining a family (Cherlin 2010). However, this type of marriage lost its popularity in the developed world due to a lack of satisfaction and happiness in the marriage (Miller, 2006). Looking to build more emotionally satisfying, marriages today have evolved to operate under individualized mode of thinking.