I've been working up to proposing to my girlfriend. I've been reading about the history of marriage in order to get confidence. One thing I think I love about it is that it's culturally universal. How many things can you say that about? Everyone in the world celebrates it.
Well sure we are here to procreate and that takes two and raising a family is a teamwork kind of thing
only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses."
Individuals may marry for several reasons, including legal, social, libidinal, emotional, financial, spiritual, and religious purposes. Whom they marry may be influenced by gender, socially determined rules of incest, prescriptive marriage rules, parental choice and individual desire. In some areas of the world, arranged marriage, child marriage, polygamy, and sometimes forced marriage, may be practiced as a cultural tradition. Conversely, such practices may be outlawed and penalized
was originally published--and since those who write about how harmful my book is invariably assure me they've never used it--I think it's clear that the hostility is to my politics rather than my pediatric advice. And though I've been denying the accusation for twenty-five years, one of the first questions I get from many reporters and interviewers is, "Doctor Spock, are you still permissive?" You can't catch up with a false accusation.
In June 1992, Spock told Associated Press journalist