Talk:Types of marriages

Organization

The organization of this article and the selection of content are haphazard.

• I think the Eastern vs. Western section is inappropriate because it doesn't present a single form of marriage as predominant in the East, nor does it cover marriage practices in most of the Eastern world.
• "Polygamy, monogamy, and polyandry" isn't a good descriptor for its section.
• "Unique practices" describes a random subset of marriage practices. More are listed under "Other terms for types of marriage."
• The introduction divides marriages into civil and religious, but this organization is not kept throughout the article. I don't think the division exists in all cultures.

Perhaps the article could be organized into civil/cultural/historical, religious, and modern sub-cultural marriage practices. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Voskoboinikov (talk • contribs) 04:51, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

merge discussion

This looks like a fork from marriage any reason it needs to be separate? MPS 17:56, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

IMHO because marriage was getting too long. BrainyBabe 19:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Marriage is definitely too long (and controversial). Keeping this material seperate is a great help. Sdsds 22:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• Support - Marriage needs major work. Personally I think it should be merged in all then all re-organized and once that's done it would be easy to see if any of it actually needs to be forked off. Radagast83 21:09, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Marriage to related people

What do you call a marriage between two individual who are blood related? I know there is a term for that, but forgot :S —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.216.31.118 (talk) 05:20, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Consanguineous marriage. It is usually used to refer to marriage between cousins. The line between this and incest depends on cultural and sometimes even familial custom. This only refers to people related by blood, as opposed to marriage between people who are related by marriage (as with Levirate marriage. Rifter0x0000 (talk) 02:54, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Isn't person who is bound to monogamist marriage an extremism...which is....

legalized in most of the modern societies, as opposed to those of polygamists...??? --222.67.218.158 (talk) 06:40, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Polygamy vs. polygyny

I just wanted to clarify something here: 'polygamy' is used on the main article, as it is often used in common parlance, to mean "a man having multiple wives." However, this is not correct. The bound root '-gam-' means "marriage"; it has nothing to do with the sex of either or any party to the marriage. What this means is that "polygamy" refers to ANY type of marriage in which there are more than two people or parties to the marriage, whereas 'polygyny' means "having more than one wife" and 'polyandry' is "having more than one husband." Notice also that I left out the sex of the person who "has more than one wife/husband" in these definitions because a tripartite (three-person) lesbian marriage would also be an example of 'polygyny' (similarly, a tripartite gay (male) marriage would be an example of 'polyandry'). Referring to 'polygamy' as gender-specific is sloppy at best. Balarick (talk) 07:27, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Divorce in Asia

In the article it is stated that "Divorce is legal in all parts in Africa and Asia, but wives seeking divorce have fewer legal rights than husbands in Muslim countries than in Communist countries ." Here in the Philippines, divorce is not recognized by the law (and thus is'nt practiced by the people). It's also prohibited by the mores of the community.

KC1 DG (Talk) 17 Oct 2016 — Preceding unsigned comment added by KC1 DG (talk • contribs) 13:03, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

work needed

A common problem of essay type pages (such as this) is that the contributors can walk blindly into corners, such as

Christianity for the past several years has continued to insist on monogamy as an essential of marriage.

and I get the impression this has been going on since at least the 1990s, right?

Much effort is needed to elevate this from the level of someone's Anth 1-01 class paper to an actual article.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 05:16, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Marriage

First thing, what is marriage and the types of marriage 41.223.118.37 (talk) 20:40, 8 June 2022 (UTC)