Throughout history, different cultures have defined marriage in different ways. These different definitions are important for our understanding, and because they have family policy implications. For example, we still listen to the statement "Birth out of marriage" from time to time. This can be true in terms of family and Christian approach to marriage. This is incorrect because it addresses single mother and child as a single family, including policy care, pension and tax allowance policy and economic aspects. In addition, according to the policy, gay couples are not legally recognized in most states and thus they do not get any policy and economic benefits.
1. A marriage
Today, most countries of the world recognize a marriage as a social norm. A marriage means a spouse to marry a wife/husband at the same time. It is prevalent in the United States, where marital one marriage is implemented by laws from all 50 states. Some of the religious sects or sects can say that they have more than one spouse, but the law of America only accepts only one spouse. Even Mormon Church now prohibits having many spouse. The Jewish-Christian history of a marriage system is very long. Culture has also played a role in the widespread of a marriage system. Most modern cultures have enacted laws to implement that a marriage is the only form of marriage that is valid, and it reflects the expansion of Christianity. The Bible justification of this practice indicates that, as God made a wife for Adam (Genesis 2) and ordered the Church leaders to be the husband of a wife, God has considered marriage as a marriage.
2. Polygamy
The prevalence of a marriage practice in Christians is very low because in the entire history, multi -marriage or many husbands have been married in most cultures. There are two forms of polygamy: polygamy (more than one wives with a husband), and polygamy (more than one husband with a wife). Polywah is prevalent in Islamic cultures. Islam is the only religion that officially approves polygamy, as the Mormon Church officially abandoned this practice in 1890 (R Morman Stil, 2001). For example, in Nigeria, a national survey of fertility found that about 40% of marriages are polygamous (Makinwa-Edabusoye, 2001). These types of marriages are prevalent in societies where women do not have access to their own economic resources. The lack of available men leads to the argument that women need to "share" the husband to survive financially. Polywah also benefits fertility. When most men die in case of war or famine, society can rationalize the need for re -population growth at a higher rate. All available women of reproductive age will be used in the practice of polygamy.
3. Poly is less common marital union. Most cultures respect male and do not allow his wife to have other husbands. Tibetan Buddhists sometimes practice polyming. Organic brothers in their culture can share their resources equally (NOOM and Chutch, 1999) to have a wife. This practice is justified as economic reasons and population control strategy.
4. Serial monogamy
Currently serial monogamy is prevalent in the United States, mainly due to the greater number of coaches and divorce rates. The serial monogamy has a series of husband-wife or partner, which is one after the year. In society, if not in the church, it has become an ideal rapidly for men and women to have many single relations throughout their life, perhaps marriage or not, to have marriage. The breakdown of these cases which is not marriage, can be as destructive as divorce, especially on children.
5. Common-law marriage
In the United States, common-loving marriage has been recognized in some states. Common-law marriage occurs when the couple living together make a compromise to become a married couple with mutual desire. It is legally recognized by the states only as a marriage, and this is done only when the common-law couple living together stays together for many years. The number of years in common-law marriage depends on the state. Common-law couples can inherit each other or they can be given alimony in case of separation. In other states, couples need to get judicial divorce in the event of a child. Common-law marriage started in the leading time in the United States when there were not many officers available to legalize the marriage. (When the officials were not present, the slaves "brooms jumped", for example, in the time of slavery, when the slave used to sanctify a man and a woman.)
6. Gay marriage
There is no fierce debate on any subject than gay marriage. Christian churches are also broken by this. Gay marriages give rise to sharp controversy in the state legislatures of the United States. On this day and until the date of publication of this book, Massachusetts, Connecket, Main, California, Iowa and Vermont legalized gay marriage. Many other states provide domestic partner benefits in some form or the other: New York, Road Island, New Mexico, Connecticut, New Jersey, Oregan, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Main, Washington, Vermont, California, Montana, Illinois, Alaska and District of Columbia. A court fight about gay marriage is likely to take a few years.
In this country, marriage has been considered a union of a woman and a man for more than 200 years. However, there are very few less federal laws to define marriage or make the terms of establishing and ending marriage and ending. The Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996, which makes the union of a woman and a man federal as marriage. Secondly, it is not the duty of the states to accept any act that "respects the relationship between the same sex persons considered as marriage under the laws of another state." DOMA has been repeatedly challenged, although so far it has met the test of such challenges (Win, 2006).
States have also fought to implement their marriage protection amendments. In these court quarrels, the meaning of marriage is at stake. Christians and other family advocates who want to cord the marriage between a man and a woman are trying to apply federal marriage protection amendment (FMA). Their final objective is to protect the State Marriage Act from judicial encroachment. For example, on May 12, 2005, a judge of the Federal District Court in Nebraska termed the Nebraska marriage amendment passed by 70% of the voters of Nebraska in the November 2004 election. There were two sides of the amendment: (1) definition of marriage; And (2) Uniform gender civil associations, domestic partnerships, or similar things invalidating and giving non-recognition (Marus, 2005).
