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When did marriage begin?
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Since the dawn of civilization, humans have been seeking connection and relationships — but the concept of marriage is a newer phenomenon. Evidence suggests that the institution of marriage is only several thousand years old, a small blip on humanity's 300,000-year timeline. The idea that two people would spend their whole lives together has only become mainstream in recent centuries. Many of the modern partner trends, like polyamory and throuples, are actually variations on historical marriage tropes. Also taking root in historical precedence are fads like the "trad wife" movement, which has been making waves on social media. But even newer than the idea of marriage? The idea that you'd marry someone because you actually love them. How old is marriage as an institution? The best available evidence suggests that it's about 4,350 years old. For thousands of years before that, most anthropologists believe, families consisted of loosely organized groups of as many as 30 people, with several male leaders, multiple women shared between them, and children. As hunter-gatherers settled down into agrarian civilizations, society had a need for more stable arrangements. The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia. Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread institution embraced by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks and Romans. But back then, marriage had little to do with love or with religion. If marriage wasn't about love, what was it about? Marriage's primary purpose was to bind women to men, and thus guarantee that a man's children were truly his biological heirs. This was particularly important in patriarchal societies where these heirs would often inherit leadership roles. Through marriage, a woman became a man's property. In the betrothal ceremony of ancient Greece, a father would hand over his daughter with these words: "I pledge my daughter for the purpose of producing legitimate offspring." And in ancient Rome, marriage was seen as a "practical means to a sensible end" in order to transfer "property, wealth, rights, responsibilities and alliances" through generations, said Wedaways Travel. Among the ancient Hebrews, men were free to take several wives; married Greek and Roman men were free to satisfy their sexual urges with concubines, prostitutes and even teenage male lovers, while their wives were required to stay home and tend to the household. If wives failed to produce offspring, their husbands could give them back and marry someone else. When did religion become involved? As the Christian church became a powerful institution in Europe, the blessings of a priest became increasingly common. Through the years, "there have been differing views about whether weddings are primarily religious or secular events," said the Christian-based Nelson University. For "much of the early Christian Era, the Church stayed out of weddings and let the state handle the union of man and woman." But by the eighth century, Christian churches started to perform weddings, and the ritual became widely accepted as a sacrament. While some religions may view marriage differently, they often share similar characteristics. Marriage is "highly valued in Jewish culture and the wedding is one of the most important events in the life cycle," according to the University of Chicago, despite the fact that "no wedding ceremony is described in the Torah." But the "institution of marriage began with Adam and Eve," said Likewise, marriage in Islam is an "essential pillar of human life, as humans are the masters of creatures and the most honorable of them," said the Imam Mahdi Association of Marjaeya. A successful Muslim marriage is a "purposeful one and not one based on emotions and fleeting desires." Beyond religion, varying cultures also have unique customs when it comes to marriage. In Scotland, a tradition called the Blackening occurs when "friends and family seize the engaged couple and gunk them with anything from rotten eggs and fish guts to manure and molasses," said the BBC. And in certain Chinese provinces, there is a "ceremonial practice involving sobbing and singing by the bride and her family" where the bride "may cry intermittently," with her tears "seen as an expression of gratitude," said the South China Morning Post. Many options for non-religious weddings have become popular, including a "unity ceremony" that can "symbolize the union of two lives into one," said the Universal Life Church. Other secular ceremonies often include touches that "encourage the couple to make their ceremony unique and personal," with aspects like self-written vows and ring-exchange alternatives. When did the state get involved? The shift from "common law" marriages — where two people (or their families) simply declared they were married — to legal marriage began in the church, with the calling of "banns," or public announcements before the marriage in the 13th century. "By the end of the Middle Ages, written marriage contracts had become a regular part of the marriage process," said Jessica Levey at American Marriage Ministries. The pros and cons of marriage The couples who run their marriage like a business Why China's young people are rejecting marriage Marriage licenses arrived in the U.S. in the colonial era — Massachusetts started recording marriages at the local level in 1639 and statewide two years later, according to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. At the time, the husband's dominance was officially recognized under a legal doctrine called "coverture," under which the new bride's identity was absorbed into his. Great Britain introduced non-religion civil marriage in the Marriage Act of 1836. By 1929, all U.S. states had laws on marriage licenses. Marriage became a federal issue with the introduction of the married-couple income tax filing in 1913. When did love enter the picture? As previously mentioned, marriage was viewed in ancient times simply as a binding contract between a man and woman. But in the 18th century, society "encouraged young people to select their marriage partners based on their romantic attachments," said the National Women's History Museum. This was a marked difference from prior centuries, especially in colonial America, when "parents viewed marriage as a business deal more than a relationship between two people," said Samson Historical. This was largely due to laws brought over from the U.K., which stated that a "young woman was under the control and influence of her father" until marriage. Arranged courtships were commonplace back then, and couples would "often be permitted social visits to determine their compatibility." While the institution of marriage has evolved, weddings themselves have also continued to transform in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with various "wedding trends" and specialty events becoming ubiquitous. While destination weddings have always existed, they have been shooting up in popularity of late, with the desire to jet off a foreign land in order to wed becoming increasingly commonplace. In 2023, nearly "one in five couples who married had a destination wedding," said The Cut, and this trend is expected to continue in the coming years. How did this tradition change? In 1920, American women won the right to vote, transforming marriage into a union of two full citizens, and in the following decade a sexual revolution introduced the idea that marriage should be a vehicle for mutual desire and satisfaction. In the 1960s, "we decided marriage was a right," not a guarded (and segregated) privilege, and "in the 1970s, we began to rearrange marriage laws" accordingly, marriage historian Stephanie Coontz said to Connecticut Public Radio. Between 1974 and 1993, U.S. states finally recognized — and banned — marital rape, an idea inconceivable when the husband "owned" his wife's sexuality. But there are still aspects of marriage that remain problematic in the U.S.; this notably includes child marriage, which is "currently legal in 35 states," and "nearly 300,000 children were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018," said the gender equality NGO Equality Now. Marriage has taken even more of a swing in the last 50 years, particularly when it comes to the wider acceptance of same sex marriages. While the LGBTQ+ community has been pushing for marriage equality for years, it was only in 2001 that the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalize same sex weddings. Other nations have followed, and particularly in the United States, people "gave our all to ensure every person, regardless of whom they love, is recognized equally under the law," said Humans Rights Watch. The "moment for full marriage equality [in the U.S.] finally arrived on June 26, 2015," when the Supreme Court "granted same-sex couples in all 50 states the right to full, equal recognition under the law." But while same-sex marriage has become significantly more accepted globally, there are many regions where it is still considered taboo. Even in nations that have legalized same-sex unions, something that "stayed common even after the legal recognition of same-sex marriage was the criticisms and oppositions faced due to the ethnic institutions, social norms and stereotypes," said Sreyasi Bhattacharya at India's Heritage Law College. This "shows that in society, even after the legal recognition of same-sex, people feel uncomfortable to answer or ignore the topic." As a result, the "expansion of LGBTQ+ rights is uneven around the world," including people's rights to get married.
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Apple Reportedly Planning AI Comeback, Complete With a Tabletop Robot
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