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
Right, yeah. But what also blew my mind when reading up about the cultural aspect of marriage is the fact that child marriage, polygamy, and forced marriages still exist in today's day and age. They're all cultural traditions that are celebrated and enforced.
That is disheartening, I have read that child marriage exists in the rural west of the US and just did not want to believe it
publications have estimated India's child marriage rate to be 47% from small sample surveys of 1998, while the United Nations reports it to be 30% in 2005. The Census of India has counted and reported married women by age, with proportion of females in child marriage falling in each 10 year census period since 1981. In its 2001 census report, India stated zero married girls below age 10, 1.4 million married girls out of 59.2 million girls aged 10–14, and 11.3 million married girls out of 46.3 million girls aged
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