What is the point of marriage?
by 
The Devils Own
ANSWERS: 16
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I am the AB resident wise-ass: to get married. Make 2.5 kids and raise them and make sure your progeny carry on the family name. Yes, love and physical attraction were the hallmark reasons why this even happened in the first place.
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No real point besides tax breaks, I'll never do it, but some people seem to think it helps 'cement their bond of love'.
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"Marriage diminishes some of life's joys, but also all of life's sorrows." Marriage is simply about companionship. Strip away the preferential material surrounding it including "rearing children" or "following god's law" and you have at its core a social institution for the public declaration of mutual dependence. From the point of the vows onward, the two individuals that came to the altar are combining their resources, assets and drive towards mutual goals. It is a commitment toward making a single life together.
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To me marriage only exists to prove something to society, not for the spouses themselves. Marriage is about forced fidelity and the escape from oppresive legal social control schemes. Anything else can be done with just a promise
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To have kids, to have a family. You get married, and have kids. That's the order of things. If you're having kids outside of marriage, then what's the point in marrying? If you don't see the importance of it then why? You know? To me it's to start a family of your own.
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For the couple to positively commit to the relationship - no more doubts and games. To make a public statement and formalise a relationship in the eyes of society and so the families of each party know they now take second place to the spouse and know that relationship is serious and intended to be permanent. Marriage improves commitment.Improves stability - no more on/ off chaos. You know the relationship is not over every time you have a difference. Pooling of finances. Two can live almost as cheap as one. Ideally it provides a stable, loving environment for children to grow up in.
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To have your relationship publicly acknowledged, to have legal rights, and to acknowledge morals of one or both partners.
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To keep divorce lawyers in business?
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Marriage is just the format of a relationship imposed by society. It was probably just there to tie a man and women down for the benefit of children who do need a stable home. Why marry? Don't, unless kids are involved but that is your choice or if you both simply want a social event to pronounce your commitment to each other.
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Marriage is for losers.
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a legalized way of shacking up............
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This goes back to religion. To paint the picture of how Christ loves the church. Well, that's what one of my parents told me anyway.
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the point is cause 2 ppl luv eachother so they get married and get kids?
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Marriage is a trap. The only reason people get married is to breed. That's what most women want, breeding. They're breeders.
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To wake up to a blow job without getting nagged about it by your grandmother
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It is sad to see that so many people believe that marriage is pointless. For the sake of the husband and wife, it allows them to enjoy an exclusive, committed relationship with each other. For the sake of the children, it helps to provides a stable home environment where their parents work together to raise them the best way they can. Think of all the single-parent homes with a missing parent (excluding when a parent dies). Do you think that deep down those children don't desire to have their missing father or mother around? Now of course, just because people are married doesn't mean there will be a stable home, but that's no excuse for people to think that marriage itself is bad. Marriage itself is not the problem (the problem is due in part to our current dating culture, but I digress). The structure of the family is important for a whole host of reasons that I can't go into here, but it all starts with marriage.
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