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- In the 1950, 1980, and 2001 Marriage Laws, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sought to legislate social change in the People’s Republic of China. Each law and subsequent revision pointed to a broader social problem as perceived by the CCP, and also created legal standards of equality between men and women.
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This collection looks back at marriage in the post-war years of the 1950s and 1960s, with emphasis on the role of women. It also shows the beginning of social changes, such as divorce reform and...
- Strategic alliances. For the Anglo-Saxons and Britain's early tribal groups, marriage was all about relationships - just not in the modern sense. The Anglo-Saxons saw marriage as a strategic tool to establish diplomatic and trade ties, says Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage.
- Consent. During the 11th Century, marriage was about securing an economic or political advantage. The wishes of the married couple - much less their consent - were of little importance.
- The sacrament of marriage. As early as the 12th Century, Roman Catholic theologians and writers referred to marriage as a sacrament, a sacred ceremony tied to experiencing God's presence.
- Wedding vows. Marriage vows, as couples recite them today, date back to Thomas Cranmer, the architect of English Protestantism. Cranmer laid out the purpose for marriage and scripted modern wedding vows nearly 500 years ago in his Book of Common Prayer, says the Reverend Duncan Dormor of St John's College at the University of Cambridge.
This article examines the consequences of one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change the “traditional” family into one more suited to the “modern world” and to a particular political ideology: the PRC’s Marriage Law (hunyin fa) of 1950.
The Marriage Law was introduced in 1950, a year into the First Five Year Plan. Why was the Marriage Law introduced? Before the Marriage Law, women did not have equal rights and were treated as being lesser than men.
Jun 10, 2020 · There are a number of possible explanations for the overall decline in the popularity of marriage in this period: Secularisation. The declining significance of religion in UK society could have contributed to the declining popularity of marriage.
English statutory law provides little insight into what marriage is; the Marriage Act 1949 outlines the procedures as to how a marriage can be solemnized and registered, but no qualitative description. According to the government consultation for the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act, „There is no legal definition of religious
Legal common-law marriage was, for practical purposes, abolished under the 1753 Marriage Act, also known as Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act. This was aimed at suppressing clandestine marriages by introducing more stringent conditions for validity, and thereafter only marriages conducted by the Church of England, Quakers , or under Jewish law ...
