FUNCTIONS OF MARRIAGE
Biological Functions :-
- most important function is reproduction.
- forms a permanent mating pair which establish exclusive sexual rights over one another.
- the institution of marriage regulates and socially validates relatively long-term legitimate sexual relations between males and females.
Economic Functions
- It solves how to share the work efforts and how to implement an organized division of laborat lndividual and personal level. Marriage brings about economic cooperation between the males and the females and ensures survival of the individuals in the society.
Social Functions :-
- to perpetuate the family line.
- a way to acquire new kinsmen.
- helps in linking the kin groups and thus serves an important social function.
Educational Functions
- The care and the protection of children are at the core of human society or the social organization.
- The human infants have the longest period of dependency than any other primate. It is the child’s protection that constitutes the greatest burden on parents.
- The process of enculturating, the child is the most important function that a family has to undertake in order to fit the child in the mainstream society.
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