Week Five: Marriage

     

     

“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." -Franklin P. Jones

 Marriage exists to unite a man and a woman as husband and wife to be father and mother of any child who produce their union. Marriage is related to unite a man and a woman as husband and wife to be the father and the mother of any child who produce their sexual union. When a baby is born, there is always a close mother: that is the reality of reproductive biology. The question is whether the parent will be involved in the life of that child and, if so, for how long. 

     Marriage connects people and goods that otherwise would tend to fragment. Helps connect sex with love, men with women, sex with babies and babies with their mothers and fathers. Signs and social, cultural and legal pressures can add or subtract in this respect the role of marriage.Maggie Gallagher takes up this idea in a concise sentence: "The sex creates babies, society needs Babies and children need mothers and fathers." Connect sex, babies, mothers and fathers is the social function of marriage and helps explain why the government rightly recognizes and addresses this aspect of our lives.