CRM/LAW C113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Loving V. Virginia, Separate Spheres, Pedophilia
2 May 2016
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Marriage is the best appropriate space to raise children. Developed in response to two class-based social needs: to allocate property. If you didn"t have property, you didn"t get married: to predict and regulate inheritance. Marriage was really about serving the state and the institution of the family. To control social status and to create difference in society to maintain class divisions; to maintain power and keep them within certain family lines (socioeconomic reasons to marry) Marriage was a basis for financially caring for members where government didn"t have centralized welfare programs. In 20th century, many institutions took over the older functions of the family. The arranged marriage was usual up until recent times where love really became a part of it. Marriage = state forcing other people to take care of each other. State interests in regulating marriage: protect the vulnerable. We have social norms against pedophilia, protecting the vulnerable, making sure we maintain.
