Freedom And The Tie That Binds: Marriage As An Ethical Institution
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چکیده
The issue of the breakdown of the marriage bond in Western societies has become a routine object of social and moral concern, political and public debate. This is striking, given that in most non-western cultures still and in every society heretofore, marriage has been insisted upon as the required precondition for the mating of men and women as the act that initiates and sustains the family order considered the foundation of all tribal and civil life. As the bedrock of communal social order and wellspring of a whole complex of coincident cultural values, it has traditionally been not only legally required, regulated and protected, but regarded as divinely ordained and thus to be sacramentally consecrated.
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