SOCSCI 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Child Support, Warning Sign
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Instituted rules on how marriage was to be understood. Marriage = where virginally not possible, marriage then connected to religious expression. Establishment of legal understanding declared actual the marriage of people. Could(cid:374)"t be (cid:373)arried u(cid:374)til the la(cid:449) said (cid:455)ou (cid:449)ere -- had to be recognized. Marriage is not just declared, but something recognized only by the state. Marriage not just a personal matter, it"s a societal matter. This was hard to sell to people. Sinners encouraged to marry to purify sexual urges -- makes them seem on a trajectory of good. As a culture, we respect monogamy and fidelity with origin in church movement. We may not respect where the ideas originated, but they may be social restrictions. Fidelity and faithfulness are crucial to many in a relationship ** Idea of family cannot be said with seriousness to be a natural occurrence. Family always been around, but not the family that you and i know.