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- Title
WHAT IS MARRIAGE?
- Authors
GIRGIS, SHERIF; GEORGE, ROBERT P.; ANDERSON, RYAN T.
- Abstract
The article explains the legal enshrining of the conjugal view of marriage, that which involves a comprehensive union of spouses, specifically organic bodily union, bearing and rearing of children, and norms of permanence, monogamy, and exclusivity, and not the revisionists view, as for the common good of the society. It discusses that the state has an interest in marriages because societies rely on families to produce upright people who make for conscientious, law-abiding citizens lessening the demand for governmental policing and social services.
- Subjects
MARRIAGE; CHILD rearing; MONOGAMOUS relationships; FAMILIES; SOCIAL services
- Publication
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 1, p245
- ISSN
0193-4872
- Publication type
Article