Marriage Flashcards
What is Arranged marriage
Parents, elders, or marriage brokers select suitable marriage partners based on a number of considerations: Kin obligations, family wealth, reputation, educational background, health, physical appearance, ability to produce children.
What is Free choice Marriage
In free choice marriages, many of the same characteristics enter into marital choice, yet we are often convinced that we are marrying for “love”.
Arranged marraige view on Love
Ultimately, romantic love is considered to be a poor basis of marriage in many societies and cultures. Arranged marriages are meant to create stability, wealth and status.
Reasons to for increase in divorced
- Women are able to provide for themselves
Long term consquence of divorce
- Twice the rate of suicides, car accidents, physical illness, and sic times the rate of psychological disorders than married people
- Women with child custody suffer the greatest financial difficulties
Short term consquence of divorce
Economic status
* Reduce in household income and * lower standard of living
Levels of happiness
* Loneliness, sadness, depression
* Emotional problems
* Feelings of guilt, anger, hurt, and sense of failure
Change in life structure
* Family relationships, Work and Friends
What is Duty based moral
A cultural value system that places a greater priority on family obligations than on personal considerations when making important decisions.
What is Cohabitation
Living with a partner but not getting married.
What is Marital Selection
- The way in which you pick your life partner
- (Free-marriage/Arranged)
What is Polygyny
man has more than one wife
What is Polyandry
A Wife with multiple husbands
What is Polygamy
Having multiple partners
