Marriage & Family

Introduction

“Marriage is the institution through which people join together their lives in emotional and economic ways through forming a household. It often confers rights and obligations with respect to raising children, holding property, sexual behaviour, kinship ties, tribal membership, relationship to society, inheritance, emotional intimacy, and love” (en.wikipedia.org).

“Marriage sometimes: establishes the legal father of a woman's child; establishes the legal mother of a man's child; gives the husband or his family control over the wife's sexual services, labor, and/or property; gives the wife or her family control over the husband's sexual services, labor, and/or property; establishes a joint fund of property for the benefit of children; establishes a relationship between the families of the husband and wife” (en.wikipedia. org).

Thesis Statement

Marriage is an essential element in ensuring a happy marriage.

Analysis

Marriage is a fortress for well-being and salvation. The writings further state that married couples should strive to become loving companions and comrades and at one with each other for time and eternity.

Researchers view preparation for marriage as an essential element in ensuring a happy marriage. The process of preparation includes a requirement for parental approval of the choice of a spouse. This does not mean that Bahá'í marriages are arranged. Individuals propose marriage to the persons of their own choice. However, once the choice is made, the parents have both the right and the obligation to weigh carefully whether to give consent to, and thus guide, their offspring in one of life's most important decisions.

Researchers believe that this requirement helps to preserve unity within the marriage--and within the extended family. Obtaining parental permission for marriage reaffirms the importance of the bond between child and parent. It also helps to create a supportive network of parents in the often difficult first years of a marriage.

Once parental permission is obtained, the marriage takes place, requiring only the simplest of ceremonies. In the presence of two witnesses designated by the local Bahá'í governing council, the couple recites the following verse: "We will all, verily, abide by the will of God." For Researchers, that simple commitment to live by God's will implies all of the commitments associated with marriage, including the promises to love, honor, and cherish; to care for each other regardless of material health or wealth; and to share with and serve each other.

Beyond these simple requirements, Researchers are free to design their own marriage celebration. Depending on personal tastes, family resources, and cultural traditions, Bahá'í ceremonies run the gamut from small to large, including all manner of music, dance, dress, food and festivity.

A lesbian woman is one who is attracted to and forms sexual relationships with other women (en.wikipedia.org). One of the woman partners exhibits manly traits and more aggression in the relationship, and the other exhibits more womanly traits and is more submissive. Both partners live together by choice. Some states are passing legislations to make marriages between women legal.

A marriage entails huge responsibilities for both partners - another reason why people ...