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Article: The demise of marriage.(PARTING THOUGHTS)
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES, marriage has withstood barbs, jokes, criticisms, and countless jibes but, until now, it has held its own as the glue that keeps society together. A standard wise-guy remark was the quip that, while marriage may be a wonderful institution, who wants to live in an institution? Then there was that common complaint echoed in the song that "those wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine." Even polygamy, whether of the type of many wives to one husband or the reverse, generally respects marriage. One can understand how a warrior society would be short of men, or a poverty-stricken one necessitate the sharing of wives. Marriage once was so ...