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purpose of marriage
| Thu, 12-01-2005 - 4:48am |
purpose of marriage
- to have stable sex partner
- to share good and bad things with someone
- to have better financial
- parent's choice
- to gain a share from other's property
- to have own child
- others - plese specify
You will not be able to change your vote.

I voted *other*.
How about to share my life with, To make me complete. To have and raise children with, to by my life partner. ALL of the above
CH
To make a legal as well as emotional commitment.
To gain legal rights, such as medical decisions, death benefits from Social Security.
To give a child TWO parents.
Because you want to.
As for your choices:
Marriage will not make an UNstable sex partner become stable.
You don't have to be married to share good and bad things.
Better financial? Financial what?
Parent's choice......nothing wrong with honoring your parent's choice, IF it's also your choice.
To gain a share of property? Marriage doesn't guarantee that.
To have a child......marriage isn't necessary to have a child.
Edited 12/1/2005 11:39 am ET by katmandoo2001
voted "other." My DH and I married out of a combined spiritual, emotional and physical commitment. We don't look at marriage as a convenience (because is isn't, living alone is much easier) or a means to an end. We love each other and want to spend our lives together and marriage sanctifies that decision.
I 100% agree with what kat wrote. These are the reasons we married and the reasons we wanted to bring children into this world.
Denny
i voted other too. marriage, to me, is to have the opportunity to have a life partner with whom you share your separate lives, your life together and the lives of your child(ren). marriage could mean so many different things. to signify your love for another person. someone you can't live without.
I too voted other! There is just no way that any single purpose for abstract concept of marriage outshines or is more important than any other. They all join together in a unity that is unlike any other in all relationships found not just in humans but in all the animal kingdom.
Having said that, I would like to note that giving legal recognition to monogamous homosexual relationships and giving them the financial benefits of marriage would be of great benefit to society in that it would provide the only sure way of limiting or halting the spread of HIV in the Gay population.
"I would like to note that giving legal recognition to monogamous homosexual relationships and giving them the financial benefits of marriage would be of great benefit to society in that it would provide the only sure way of limiting or halting the spread of HIV in the Gay population."
do you identify as a gay man/woman?
how do you know the spread of HIV/AIDS (which has been on the decline in the gay community in the last few years) is the cause of not providing partners w/ financial benefits?
do you identify as a gay man/woman?
I am pure heterosexual a male. WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH BEING ABLE TO STRING TWO THOUGHTS TOGETHER LOCICALLY?
BTW I do have friends and acquaintences in the gay/lesbian comminity and one god-daughter who is lesbian. I do discuss these things with them.
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how do you know the spread of HIV/AIDS (which has been on the decline in the gay community in the last few years) is the cause of not providing partners w/ financial benefits?
THAT IS NOT WHAT I SAID!!! REREAD MY WORDS. I DID NOT EVEN INFER A CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SPREAD OF AIDS AND ***NOT*** "PROVIDING PARTNERS W/FINANCIAL BENEFITS" WHAT I INFERRED WAS JUST EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE!!!
The fact that a massive campaign to encourage safe sex, primairly the use of condoms which no one argues is anything near a perfect answer, has had a favorable impact on AIDS rates in the gay community is irrelevant to my contention that legally recognized "marriage" right for gays would encourage such "marriages" thus encouraging exclusive monagamous relationships.
The only life safer from AIDS than an exlcusive lifetime partnership is to abstain from sex entirely and that is not really an option for most normal people.