Is Not Getting Married Going Against Nature?

April 05-2009:

Is Not Getting Married Going Against Nature?

I heard this expression in a movie recently, and I was inspired to pen some of my views on this issue!

Most societies hitherto have had some form of mutual arrangement between two individuals, (a male and a female). This was done in private or public, depending upon the type of religious, traditional, or social norms of that clan, group, region, or culture.

Today in most modern societies, the institution of marriage is taken for granted, and most people, especially women feel that when they have gotten to know some male, who they may have been seeing, and feels that the emotional bond that was established between them, warrants consolidation through marriage.

Some women and men may feel that if a child is imminent between them, it would be in the interest of the unborn, to have a father figure to emulate, or help nurture during those early years of it's development.

This idea has become institutionalized throughout the world today.

Marriage can also be a means to inherit wealth, ensure that wealth stays within a certain lineage or hereditary family too. We also have marriages between same genders, which is a relatively new phenomenon in developed societies.

However, if you have any comments or additions to add to this discourse, you are welcomed to provide same.

Derryck.
NYC.