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The 55 pages that link to Marriage, each with the reason it gives.

• KinshipRelated: Marriage commonly creates affinal relationships between people and groups.

• Sexual ethicsRelated: Marriage institutions shape expectations about sex, fidelity, commitment, and family life.

• DivorceNarrower topic: Divorce ends the legal status and obligations created by marriage.

• FamilyRelated: Marriage links partners and may connect their relatives into family networks.

• HeteronormativityRelated: Marriage laws and customs can encode assumptions about which relationships count as ordinary or legitimate.

• SacramentBroader topic: Catholic teaching treats marriage between baptized people as a sacrament.

• Family lawRelated: Marriage establishes a legal relationship regulated by family law.

• Romantic loveRelated: Romantic love has become a central justification for marriage in many modern societies.

• MonogamyRelated: Many legal systems organize marriage around monogamy, though marriage and mating systems are distinct.

• The Second SexRelated: The book analyzes marriage as an institution that can restrict women’s economic and personal independence.

• CourtshipBroader topic: It is a possible outcome that distinguishes this sense of courtship from casual dating.

• History of the familyRelated: Marriage rules shaped inheritance, residence, and the formation of families.

• ExogamyNarrower topic: Exogamy regulates partner selection within the broader institution of marriage.

• Chosen familyCompared with: Marriage can formalize some family ties, while chosen family often remains outside that structure.

• Romantic dramaRelated: Marriage often supplies romantic drama with obligations that compete with personal desire.

• CelibacyCompared with: Marriage is the institution celibacy may involve abstaining from entering.

• CohabitationCompared with: Marriage can grant rights and duties that cohabiting partners may not automatically receive.

• Name changeRelated: Marriage may lead one or both spouses to adopt a different surname.

• PolyandryNarrower topic: Human polyandry is one possible marital arrangement, distinct from animal mating behavior.

• Civil marriageNarrower topic: Civil marriage is one legally defined form of the broader institution.

• Common-law marriageNarrower topic: Common-law marriage is one way a jurisdiction may recognize a marriage.

• Alliance theoryRelated: Marriage rules connect groups and structure the alliances the theory examines.

• Free loveCompared with: Free love questions marriage’s claim to regulate intimate relationships, not necessarily every couple’s choice to marry.

• Marriage plotRelated: Marriage commonly provides the marriage plot’s decisive resolution or its contested goal.

• Civil unionCompared with: Comparing marriage clarifies which protections a civil union includes and which it may lack.

• Co-parentingCompared with: Co-parenting concerns shared responsibility for a child and does not depend on marital status.

• Incest tabooRelated: Marriage rules often specify which kin relationships are permitted or forbidden.

• Romantic relationshipBroader topic: Marriage is one institution through which romantic partners formalize a commitment.

• SurnameRelated: Marriage can affect surname choices, though practices and laws differ widely.

• Arranged marriageNarrower topic: Arranged marriage is one way societies form and regulate marital unions.

• BridewealthNarrower topic: Bridewealth is negotiated within marriage and may help define the rights and duties it creates.

• Domestic partnershipCompared with: Domestic partnerships often provide a narrower alternative to this legal status.

• HeterosexualityRelated: Many societies have organized heterosexual relationships through marriage, though marriage is not inherently heterosexual.

• FuxiRelated: Some traditions credit Fuxi with establishing marriage rites and regulating kinship.

• Sherwood AndersonRelated: Anderson’s first marriage and family life preceded his break with business and move toward writing.

• Sociology of the familyRelated: Marriage organizes intimacy, rights, resources, and family formation in changing ways.

• Bride priceNarrower topic: Bride price is one possible component of marriage arrangements.

• Interracial marriageNarrower topic: Interracial marriage is defined by the institution of marriage as well as racial classification.

• Cultural universalBroader topic: Marriage-like institutions recur widely, but their definitions and prevalence are not uniform.

• Wedding ringNarrower topic: The ring symbolizes the marital union rather than merely the wedding ceremony.

• MatchmakingRelated: Many matchmaking traditions have aimed specifically at finding a spouse.

• IncestRelated: Marriage can create prohibited relationships between relatives by affinity, not descent.

• SpouseNarrower topic: Spousal status arises through a marriage recognized by the relevant legal or social system.

• ConcubinageRelated: Concubinage was defined in relation to marriage and often lacked the same recognized status.

• History of human sexualityRelated: Marriage has regulated legitimate sex, property, and reproduction in many societies.

• HoneymoonNarrower topic: The honeymoon is a custom attached to the beginning of married life.

• HypergamyNarrower topic: Hypergamy has historically been discussed through marriage rules and spouse selection.

• Mrs.Narrower topic: The title's traditional meaning depends on marital status.

• Premarital sexNarrower topic: Marriage supplies the status used to distinguish premarital from marital sex.

• Sororate marriageNarrower topic: Sororate marriage is one culturally specific rule governing who may marry after bereavement.