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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At times it seems to me that marriage is a grand scheme, a ruse designed to use women to benefit men.  I truly see way more advantages for men than for women in the institution of marriage.[/quote]

Why? Women get pregnant. Men don't. If it weren't for marriage, women would be on their own raising the kid. [/quote]

You do know how the kids get in there, right?[/quote]

It's the raising kids part, not making them. Marriage is a societal extension that benefits the woman by ensuring a male caregiver for her child, and the man by ensuring he's raising his own child. Of course this covenant is broken in both directions, but I think this was the intent of formalized marriage early on.[/quote]

Well, kind of. I think marriage is an extension of the creation of the idea of property. Before the agricultural revolution and the ability to accumulate property, I don't think marriage had the same connotations -- to the extent it existed at all. The tribe raises the kid, and that's ok. But when you accumulate property and want to be able to hand it down to your genetic offspring, a different approach is necessary to avoid having another man's son inherit your stuff. [/quote]

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