Talk:Handfasting/Archive 1
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someone should start a wedding ceremonies page
There is already a wedding page, which links to this one. It should suffice.
- Many handfastings are not marriages. They are sometimes for a shorter period than life (renewed each year, for instance). --Dmerrill
How does that make it not a kind of marriage? Just because our particular cultural tradition of marriage is "till death do us part", that doesn't mean it's an inherent part of the concept. In some cultures, for example, marriage is basically the act of announcing to the social group who the father of a child is, which further serves to obligate the father to provide some care for the child and its mother. The idea of a "marriage" existing beyond the time the child leaves on his own would seem bizarre. --LDC
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| Unreferenced; could be B-class if properly referenced. - AdelaMae (t - c - wpn) 16:33, 5 January 2007 (UTC) |
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