Comments on: Marriage is a tool society uses to reproduce https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/04/marriage-is-a-tool-society-uses-to-reproduce/ Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/04/marriage-is-a-tool-society-uses-to-reproduce/#comment-493661 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:30:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12716#comment-493661 Martha, the things you refer to here are indeed parts of traditional, and thus, older cultures, but those things are human inventions of the last several thousand years or less in most places. The evidence suggests that marriage existed before the “middle range,” peasant, and caste based societies you refer to.

]]> By: Martha https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/04/marriage-is-a-tool-society-uses-to-reproduce/#comment-493660 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:52:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12716#comment-493660 Marriage is about property and property rights. When it started, wives and children were property. It also determined the inheritance of property – children of marriage were entitled to inheritance or dower; bastard children were not. The system kept property rights in order within the tribe or clan.

]]> By: Joe Marcus https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/04/marriage-is-a-tool-society-uses-to-reproduce/#comment-493659 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:17:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12716#comment-493659 Superb mini-review. I kinda appreciate your title and last two sentences.

]]> By: The Scienceblogging Weekly (July 6th, 2012) | Stock Market News - Business & Tech News https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/04/marriage-is-a-tool-society-uses-to-reproduce/#comment-493658 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:46:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12716#comment-493658 […] Marriage is a tool society uses to reproduce by Greg Laden […]

]]> By: The Lion's View - The Scienceblogging Weekly (July 6th, 2012) https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/04/marriage-is-a-tool-society-uses-to-reproduce/#comment-493657 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:05:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12716#comment-493657 […] Marriage is a tool society uses to reproduce by Greg Laden […]

]]> By: Keljopy https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/04/marriage-is-a-tool-society-uses-to-reproduce/#comment-493656 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:39:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12716#comment-493656 Along with other practical reasons like needing a partner to be a spouse for health insurance or immigration reasons.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/04/marriage-is-a-tool-society-uses-to-reproduce/#comment-493655 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 03:37:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12716#comment-493655 I should add that to the list.

]]> By: bks https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/07/04/marriage-is-a-tool-society-uses-to-reproduce/#comment-493654 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 03:04:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=12716#comment-493654 We got married to simplify doing our taxes.

–bks

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